Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Booker's Place (2012)



Director: Raymond De Felitta
Run Time: 91 min.

“In 1966 Frank De Felitta made a documentary for NBC News about life for Southerners in Mississippi. The content of the film upset many white Southerners and led to the beating of a black man, Booker Wright, the loss of his job, and eventually his murder. Forty-six years later Booker's granddaughter, Yvette Johnson, and Frank's son, director Raymond DeFelitta, are on a quest to discover who Booker was and how he changed life for black people.”
—Wiener-Rogers Law Library Catalog