Racism

This short version of the feature (distributed by Tribeca Film) encapsulates the film and some of what happened to a man who courageously and fearlessly spoke his heart and mind at that tumultuous time in American history.

In 1965, NBC News director, Frank De Felitta, met an African-American waiter named Booker Wright and asked him to be filmed reciting the menu from the 'whites only' restaurant that Booker worked at in Greenwood, Mississippi. What Mr. De Felitta captured, surprised the nation when broadcast in 1966. Forty-five years later, Frank's son, filmmaker Raymond De Felitta, and along with Ogilvy & Mather's eyepatch productions producer David Zellerford, revisit an era of Civil Rights through the lens of cinematographer Joe Victorine, and discover with Booker's granddaughter, the impact Booker Wright's TV appearance had on himself and his family.

DemocracyNow.org - In 1965, Booker Wright, an African-American waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi, dared to be interviewed by NBC about racism in America, a decision that forever changed his and his family's lives. He would later be beaten by police, and ultimately be murdered. Wright's story is told in the new documentary film, "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story," a collaboration between our two guests: co-producer, Yvette Johnson, Wright's grand-daughter; and director Raymond DeFelitta, whose father, Frank DeFelitta, originally filmed the interview with Wright and later said he regretted it. 

ABC News Hidden camera experiments Racism in America. An event is staged where a Muslim woman is refused service in a bakery. See other customers reactions.