“Booker’s Place – A Mississippi Story” [MOVIE REVIEW]
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story- Yvette Johnson with her father, Leroy Jones. Photo by: Nicki Newburger. “Booker’s Place – A Mississippi Story” is a film by Raymond De Felitta that retraces the steps of his father, NBC News documentarian Frank De Felitta, and the documentary he made in 1966 about the tensions and struggles caused by the burgeoning civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta, focusing primarily on the citizens of Greenwood, Mississippi. Driving through the South in the early 60s, De Felitta felt compelled to make a film about the conditions he saw because it brought to mind the horror he experienced in assisting with the liberation of the concentration camps after World War II – seeing how man could treat his fellow man. The South De Felitta chronicled in 1965 still had a thriving indentured servitude class in share croppers. Plantations still existed and mothers were often separated from their children. Whippings were commonplace, lynchings still occurred and there were more than 600 church bombings that year. Rediscovering the original 16mm master of the film in his father’s personal archives, Raymond decided to post it on YouTube. It was his producing…
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