My Song is My Testimony

My Song is My Testimony

Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

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"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 slaves, Bennie learned the songs that would carry her through her life. "Dem songs," is what the woman ...