Paul Kendrick (born 1983) is an American author of popular history.
Early life and education
editKendrick obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University (GW).[1]
During his time at GW, Kendrick served as President of the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter and also as a Presidential Administrative Fellow.
Career
editWith his father, Stephen Kendrick, Kendrick 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 walks to school, and the effect this had on the effort to desegregate Boston schools in the 1840s.[2] The case led to the Separate but equal justification for segregation.[3] The book was named among the best non-fiction of 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor.[4]
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.
He is currently director of the Harlem Children's Zone's College Success Program. [1][5]
Publications
edit- 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 978-0-8070-5018-7
- 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 978-0-8027-1523-4
- Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election by Paul Kendrick & Stephen Kendrick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York (2021). ISBN 9781250155702
References
edit- ^ "Alumni Memories". columbian.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ Walton, Christopher L (2005-05-01). "Ambitious first book at 21". UU World Magazine. Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ "Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America". Beacon Press.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Best nonfiction 2005". Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor. 2005-11-25. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ Skouras, Lindsey (2006-03-01). "PAF writes for a cause". The Daily Colonial. George Washington University. Archived from the original on December 14, 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-05.