Grace Booth shares experience in the Civil Rights Movement

Grace Booth shares experience in the Civil Rights Movement

The Pearl River County Historical Society met at the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library on Wednesday, July 8, to watch “The Voices of Civil Rights.”   Grace Booth was involved in a project in the early 2000s to collect personal narratives about the Civil Rights Movement. Booth is a retired teacher, author, and speaker who lived in New Orleans. She maintained a diary documenting her experiences at her public high school during school integrati…