Hooks, Baker, the GOP And the Road Not Taken
By Roger Witherspoon It’s hard to make pancakes with your right arm broken and useless in a sling. It was 90 degrees and humid in Miami Beach, even though it was just 7:30 in the morning. Frances Hooks was struggling to fix breakfast in the kitchen of their hotel suite during the NAACP annual convention. Breakfast was the only quiet time Ben Hooks would have that day for a protracted interview; but he didn’t cook and a one-armed Frances was having a hard time. So we changed r