My Song is My Testimony: Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

"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, but into three. First, of course, there was racial segregation, but growing up with dark skin Bennie saw a second split within her own black community: a split between those who were lighter-skinned and those who looked like Bennie. There, sitting at the feet of former...