The Colored Waiting Room

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Kevin Shird. The Colored Waiting Room

contents

Introduction

1: Heading South

2: Martin

3: America Lynched

4: Bloody Sunday

5: The Colored Waiting Room

6: March On

7: The Awakening

8: I Am A Black Man

9: Don’t Boo, Vote

10: Leaders Among Us

11: Knowledge Is Power

12: Women Who Lead

13: In the End

14: Murder in Memphis

Afterword: Race in America

Timeline

Acknowledgments

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CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN AN MLK JR. CONFIDANT AND A MODERN-DAY ACTIVIST

THE COLORED

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“Now, when you tell a barber that a haircut is ‘good,’ that’s somewhat of an insult,” Nelson told me with a big smile.

When Reverend King came back two weeks later, Nelson was busy working on another customer. Even though the other barber’s chair was vacant, King waited for him to finish. When Nelson’s chair opened up, the reverend came over and sat down, and Nelson began cutting his hair. He remembered the unenthusiastic assessment King had offered of his work the last time he was there, so Nelson said, “That must have been a pretty good haircut you got the last time you were here, huh?”

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