Delta Rainbow: The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson

by Sally Palmer Thomason

Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage--and caused great personal pain for her parents and herself--when she became an activist in the civil rights movement. Never fearing to break the mold in her search for the "best," in her nineties she remains a strong, effective leader with a fun-loving, generous spirit.

When Betty was eighteen months old, a train smashed into the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496806646
• ISBN13: 9781496806642
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"