Description: The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights
Brief description: Sally Palmer Thomason was born, raised, and educated in California but has lived in Memphis for over fifty years. She retired as the dean of continuing and corporate education at Rhodes College and has authored several books, including The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic and Delta Rainbow: The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: This is a wonderful book and a fitting tribute to a rare human being who rose far above her heritage to repeatedly do the right thing in the race-torn Mississippi of the last half of the twentieth century. If you were a white Mississippian and fortunate enough to know Betty, her example was irrefutable evidence that you weren't doing enough to advance the day of racial reconciliation and reconstruction. She was quite literally sui generis, which is too bad. A platoon of Betty Pearsons would have sped the state toward a much earlier rendezvous with decency.--Hodding Carter III