The colored waiting room : empowering the original and the new civil rights movements ; conversations between an MLK Jr. confidant and a modern-day activist / Kevin Shird with Nelson Malden.
Includes bibliographical references. Includes timeline.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Heading South. Martin -- America lynched -- Bloody Sunday -- The colored waiting room -- March on. Part II. 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.
Summary:
Extraordinary conversations between a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and a modern-day activist lead to the game-changing realizations that a second-wave civil rights movement is unfolding and that we must embrace the lessons of the past to effect lasting change. -- Amazon.
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