Paul Kendrick

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Paul Kendrick (b. 1983) is an author of popular history. With his father, Stephen Kendrick, he co-authored Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, which describes the legal case, Roberts v. Boston, brought on behalf of Sarah Roberts, a black child who was not allowed to attend any of the five "whites-only" schools she passed on her daily walk to school, and the effect this had on the effort to desegregate schools in Boston in the 1840s.[1] The case led to the Separate but equal justification for segregation.[2] The book was named among the best non-fiction of 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor.[3]

He has also co-authored (with his father) Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union, to be published in December 2007.

As a student at George Washington University, Paul Kendrick served as President of the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter and also as a Presidential Administrative Fellow. He is currently an assistant director of the Harlem Children's Zone. [1][4]

[edit] Publications

  • Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Paul Kendrick & Stephen Kendrick. Beacon Press: Boston (2004). ISBN 978-080705018-7
  • Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union by Paul Kendrick & Stephen Kendrick. Walker & Company: New York (2007). ISBN 978-0802715234

[edit] References

  1. ^ Walton, Christopher L. "Ambitious first book at 21", UU World Magazine, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations., 2005-05-01. Retrieved on 2007-10-05. (English) 
  2. ^ Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America (HTML). Beacon Press. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
  3. ^ Best nonfiction 2005 (HTML). Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor (2005-11-25). Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
  4. ^ Skouras, Lindsey. "PAF writes for a cause", The Daily Colonial, George Washington University, 2006-03-01. Retrieved on 2007-10-05. (English)