Paul Kendrick is an author

Author

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 of popular history

History

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. With his father, Stephen Kendrick, Paul co-authored Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, which describes the legal case

Legal case

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, Roberts v. Boston

Roberts v. Boston

Roberts v. Boston, 59 Mass. 198 , was a lawsuit seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Boston, finding no constitutional basis for the suit. The case was later cited by the US Supreme Court in Plessy v...

, 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

Boston

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 schools in the 1840s. The case led to the Separate but equal

Separate but equal

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to...

 justification for segregation

Racial segregation

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. The book was named among the best non-fiction of 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor.

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

George Washington University

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, Paul Kendrick served as President of the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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chapter and also as a Presidential Administrative Fellow. He is currently director of the Harlem Children's Zone's College Success Program. http://www.youngpeoplefor.org/news/newsletter/may_enl/

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