have to keep that smile. >> telling the truth was still risky business in 1966 mississippi, and booker wrightor him. it did not make him a star. >> not within the white community. but even the stokely carmichael mainly first chanted black power here, that was less important to the black community here than what booker said on the nbc news. >> yeah. the private dining rooms at lusco's are still here. the menu, much the same. steaks, fish, the famous broiled shrimp, the lusco special salad with the house italian vinaigrette dressing and a healthy dose of anchovy. onion rings. >> salad makes me happy. >> yeah, me, too. >> mostly the anchovies make me happy. >> yeah, yeah, love those. catfish for mr. edge, the famous pompano for me. >> it's the kind of the mark of being a great restaurant in the delta if you have pompano. >> that's a big damn fish. no way i'm finishing this. sitting here, the booths, the curtains, the whole ring bell lovely, incongruously eccentric, little island, a mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers, and oddballs drawn, perhaps, by its rich literary traditi