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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

By: Kevin Shird,Nelson Malden

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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

By: Kevin Shird,Nelson Malden

—Updated with new content— 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. In 1966, Nelson Malden ran for public office in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the first African American to do so. Campaigning for him was his friend, Martin Luther King Jr., who had organized protests and had written the speeches that would help criminalize racial segregation and discrimination from his seat in the Malden Brothers Barbershop. In The Colored Waiting Room, modern-day activist Kevin Shird heads from his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland to Montgomery to meet eighty-four-year-old Nelson Malden and contextualize the significance of the killings of Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin as well as the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Ferguson, Baltimore, and around the country. The result is a groundbreaking understanding of today’s burgeoning second-wave civil rights movement and the urgent actions necessary for racial equality and change. Here, Shird raises the profound question of whether blacks are still in a colored waiting room, biding their time and waiting for racial equality to be the norm. He also shares compelling personal realizations on the lost connection between African American youth and their ancestors’ fight against slavery and Jim Crow laws, asking throughout this pivotal volume, how far can we go without knowing where we’ve come from?

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Apollo Publishers

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ISBN 10

1948062089

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9781948062084

Lessons of Redemption

A Memoir of Journeying Through Gangland America

By: Kevin Shird

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Lessons of Redemption

A Memoir of Journeying Through Gangland America

By: Kevin Shird

Lessons of Redemption is the memoir of Kevin Shird, a former drug dealer from Baltimore who now is a leading advocate against violence, drug dealing, and social inequality.The book is an extraordinary account of how one young man turned his life around after years of involvement in serious crime and drug dealing. Shird tells of shootings, murder, drug dealing, and his life behind bars in a federal prison.Shocking, fascinating, and frightening, Lessons of Redemption is a raw, uncensored look into a way of life that has destroyed many urban communities in America.

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1948062208

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9781948062206

The Colored Waiting Room

Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Day Activist

By: Kevin Shird,Nelson Malden

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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

By: Kevin Shird,Nelson Malden

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1948062089

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9781948062084

Lessons of Redemption

A Memoir

By: Kevin Shird

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Lessons of Redemption

A Memoir

By: Kevin Shird

The book is an account of life on the streets, the impact of drugs on the community and the impact of addiction on the children of addicts ... [The book] provides a thoughtful reflection into the process of human transformation. It personifies the 'two waring ideals' of Black male experience in America. Shird provides a glimpse of one's potential of being a villain and a hero in one lifetime by moving the reader through his transition from a communiity disruptor to a community organizer"--Back cover.

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300

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Maverick House

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0989501299

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9780989501293

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The Colored Waiting Room

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