Booker's Place
“Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story” asks a question about documentaries to which I admit I’ve not given much consideration: Can a documentary negatively affect the lives of their participants? For Booker Wright, an interviewee in Frank DeFelitta’s 1966 NBC documentary, “Mississippi: A Self-Portrait,” his appearance cost him a severe beating, the bombing of his business, and potentially his death 7 years later. Wright’s “crime” was to speak too bluntly about life as a Black man in Greenwood, Mississippi. “