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'Booker's Place' Web Extra
An interview with co-producer Yvette Johnson
By Bill McAllister
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ANCHORAGE - Yvette Johnson is the granddaughter of Booker Wright, a Greenwood, Mississippi, restaurateur who appeared in a television documentary about race relations in 1966 and who was murdered seven years later. Johnson co-produced the new documentary, "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story," which will be screened Friday, February 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the UAA campus. She will participate in a question-and-answer session with the audience after the screening. Here is her complete interview with CBS 11's Bill McAllister, recorded Wednesday. To read the original story, click here.
