'Searching for Booker Wright: A Conversation with Yvette Johnson' - Feb. 20, 2013

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore Yvette Johnson graduated from Northern Arizona University where she started The Booker Wright Project. In it, she researches the complicated life her grandfather lived in Greenwood, Miss., where he was a waiter in a "whites only" steakhouse as well as owner of a restaurant on the "black" side of town. Yvette Johnson is co-producer of "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" and the author of "Searching for Booker Wright." This event is sponsored with the UAA Sociology Department.

This event is free and open to the public, with free parking in the South Lot, the lot across from the bookstore. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.