My Song is My Testimony
Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton
Published on 25. September 2024
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-0391-9953-8 (ISBN)
Description
"I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you're not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it's your own story."
Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas-a city split not into two, she would argue, ...
Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas-a city split not into two, she would argue, ...
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0391-9953-8 (9781039199538)
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BENNIE LUCILLE WILLIAMS WAS a musician and music teacher through multiple tumultuous periods of United States history. She forged powerful relationships with musicians of all kinds and witnessed the real, human effects of events from desegregation to the Kennedy assassination. Bennie passed away in 2023 at the age of ninety, and this manuscript was compiled shortly before then.
JACQUELYN BENTON IS THE person to whom Bennie told her story, and she recalls Bennie telling her, "I'm a storyteller; you're the writer." Ms. Benton has done her best to faithfully preserve Bennie's words, and to put the story of a brilliant woman-and an era of black history fewer and fewer living people recall-out into the world. She is a retired educator and academic writer living in Aurora, Colorado, with her children and grandchildren.
JACQUELYN BENTON IS THE person to whom Bennie told her story, and she recalls Bennie telling her, "I'm a storyteller; you're the writer." Ms. Benton has done her best to faithfully preserve Bennie's words, and to put the story of a brilliant woman-and an era of black history fewer and fewer living people recall-out into the world. She is a retired educator and academic writer living in Aurora, Colorado, with her children and grandchildren.