Paul Kendrick

Paul Kendrick (born 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.cite news
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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. [http://www.youngpeoplefor.org/news/newsletter/may_enl/] [cite news
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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

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