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The colored waiting room empowering the original and the new civil rights movements : conversations between an MLK Jr. confidant and a modern-day activist

In The Colored Waiting Room, activist Kevin Shird heads from his hometown of Baltimore, MD, to Montgomery to meet eighty-four-year-old Nelson Malden (a confidante of MLK) and contextualize the significance of recent racially motivated events, and the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Ferguson, Balt...

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Main Authors: Shird, Kevin (Author), Malden, Nelson (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Apollo Publishers, 2018.
Subjects:
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Civil rights workers > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Civil rights movements > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Heading south
  • Martin
  • America lynched
  • Bloody Sunday
  • The colored waiting room
  • March on
  • The awakening
  • I am a black man
  • Don't boo, vote
  • Leaders among us
  • Knowledge is power
  • Women who lead
  • In the end
  • Murder in Memphis
  • Afterword: race in America
  • Timeline.

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