The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an Mlk Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Da
Autor Nelson Maldenen Paperback – 19 feb 2020
- Paperback edition of successful hardcover book at an appealing lower price point.
- To best promote media coverage and displays, book will be available by Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in January 2020, with a publication date timed to coincide with Black History Month (February 2020).
- Proven hit with secondary and higher education; over 2,000 copies purchased by Baltimore public schools. The same formula will be used to attract sales in other secondary and higher education markets, this time with the paperback.
- Coauthor Nelson Malden to be featured in a 10-part radio special on the Negro Motorist Green-Book releasing in February 2020.
- Paperback edition has new, timely content, including important updates on the cases of Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile, as well as the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement in the years following Ferguson and in the face of rising threats from the alt-right.
- Since original publication, author Kevin Shird, who spent 12 years in prison, has become a professor at Johns Hopkins University, a profile that will contribute to a larger audience at national inspirational talks coupled with book signings.
- Hardcover book release was tied to a successful author tour and attracted media interest, including author appearances on television, print features, and interviews on nationally syndicated radio, paperback will allow a second life and fresh campaign.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1948062291
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Apollo Publishers
Notă biografică
Kevin Shird is an activist, national youth advocate, public speaker, and author. Shird began dealing drugs at the age of sixteen, and later served almost twelve years in prison for drug trafficking. Today he works with young people to help them avoid the dangers of street culture and advocates for policy changes that support their safety and development. With his friend, award-winning R&B singer Mario (Mario Barrett), Shird cofounded the Do Right Foundation, a nonprofit that from 2008-2014 provided a lifeline to children living with family members abusing drugs. During the tenure of President Barack Obama, Shird worked with the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy and as part of the committee for President Obama's Clemency Project. During the protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, Shird was an action consultant to then-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration. Today, Shird speaks at colleges and universities nationwide on public health policy, reentry into society after incarceration, and substance abuse prevention. He lives in Baltimore, MD.
Nelson Malden owned and worked for a half-century at the Malden Brothers Barbershop. Martin Luther King Jr. was a client of his and the reverend at his church, and the two were friends until King’s assassination. During the civil rights movement, Malden distributed the Southern Courier newspaper, one of the few newspapers in the South to cover the African American community, and participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later, Malden was the first African American to run for political office in the racially divided city of Montgomery, AL. He lives in Montgomery, AL.
Cuprins
Introduction
Part I
- Heading South
- Martin
- America Lynched
- Bloody Sunday
- The Colored Waiting Room
- March On
Part II
Afterword: Race in America
Timeline