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Join us for a special conversation with author Karen Gray Houston as she discusses her book Daughter of the Boycott.
As part of our commemoration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., join us for a special conversation with Karen Gray Houston to discuss her book Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy. In conversation with educator and author Paula Young Shelton, Houston will discuss her new book and her family's legacy in the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
About the author: Karen Gray Houston is an award-winning journalist, whose career in broadcast news has spanned 41 years at radio and television stations and networks in Boston, New York City and Washington, DC. She retired from WTTG-TV, Fox-5 in Washington, DC, in May of 2014 after nearly 20 years as a local news reporter. Karen worked as a radio and TV correspondent for NBC News covering the Reagan White House, was a reporter/anchor for WTOP News-radio in DC and WHDH-AM in Boston and anchored on the ABC Radio Network. Karen was a writer/associate producer at WCBS-TV in New York and a reporter/writer/editor with United Press International in Boston.
Copies of the book can be purchased from Loyalty Bookstores here.
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | MLK Week | Author Talk |
