The image of a white elementary school principal helping a young Black girl get home through an angry mob on the day she integrated her school – and just hours before it was blown to pieces – made Stephen MacKenzie want to write a book. It helped that his wife had been a teacher at the school during those extremely trying days. MacKenzie’s new book, told through the eyes of his wife, MaryAnne (Bruce) MacKenzie, got a one-of-a-kind launch party Tuesday morning at Hattie Cotton STEM Magnet Elementary School, the East Nashville school that was firebombed in September 1957, MaryAnne’s…
