Krak Teet

Narrated by Trelani Michelle

Krak Teet is a Gullah Geechee phrase meaning "to speak." This audiobook preserves the voices of Savannah's Black elders-grandchildren of the enslaved who laid the city's cobblestone roads and introduced its famous red rice and deviled crabs.

These first-hand accounts share stories of struggle-Ms. Madie's family fleeing after her father sold a pig without permission, Mr. Roosevelt packing his mother's stab wounds with cobwebs, Ms. Florie marching Broughton Street twice a day to protest segregation-and stories of triumph-Queen Elizabeth Butler becoming the first Black woman in Savannah to own a car, Ms. Sadie earning $500 a week running numbers, and the city desegregating months before the Civil Rights Act.

Krak Teet repositions Savannah's Black history as central to the American story, not a sidebar.