Date: Wednesday, February 28
Time: 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Event: A Virtual Book Discussion with authors Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick
Join the Charlestown Preservation Society and the friends of the Charlestown Branch Library for a Virtual Book Discussion with authors Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick to discuss their book Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King’s Life and Win the 1960 Election.
Nine Days documents a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s perilous first imprisonment and how it clarified his path to changing a nation as well as the story of three Kennedy campaign civil rights advisors who went rogue to free King. This interracial trio risked the razor-close 1960 election against Nixon to get King out of prison and shift the Black vote, changing our political parties forever.
Authors will also discuss their earlier work Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America and its tie to 112 High Street in Charlestown.
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