Yvette Johnson is a writer, film producer, and speaker. She coproduced the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
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“Have to keep that smile,” said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright was a waiter in a whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights move... SEE MORE