Paul Kendrick Explained

Paul Kendrick (born 1983) is an American author of popular history.

Early life and education

Kendrick 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

With 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. https://archive.today/20130416131437/http://www.youngpeoplefor.org/news/newsletter/may_enl/^[5]

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).
• 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).
• 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).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alumni Memories. columbian.gwu.edu. en. 2018-11-29.
2. News: Walton . Christopher L . Ambitious first book at 21 . UU World Magazine . Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. . 2005-05-01 . 2007-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071009070430/http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/1543.shtml . 2007-10-09.
3. Web site: Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America . Beacon Press .
4. Web site: Best nonfiction 2005 . Christian Science Monitor . The Christian Science Monitor . 2005-11-25 . 2007-10-05 .
5. News: Skouras . Lindsey . PAF writes for a cause . The Daily Colonial . George Washington University . 2006-03-01 . 2007-10-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061214014426/http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=2329 . December 14, 2006 .