About the Author

Sally Palmer Thomason, Memphis, Tennessee, USA was born, raised, and educated in California but has lived in Memphis over fifty years. She retired as the dean of continuing and corporate education at Rhodes College and has authored three books.

Reviews

Of all the amazing characters from the Mississippi Delta, Betty Pearson is one of the most admirable. As Delta Rainbow describes so nicely, Betty stood for social justice decades ago--at the cost of estranging friends and family--and she and her husband Bill have kept the faith as exemplary citizens into their 90s.--Curtis Wilkie

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