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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Glory was in good company this weekend.

This time last year, I shared a quote and a story about Dr. Martin Luther King. Here's the quote:

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

And here's the link to that post if you care to go back and read it:

Now a book I wrote is appearing on lists suggested for students studying Dr. King, the Civil Rights movement, Freedom Summer. I truly appreciate my book appearing next to the likes of  
One Crazy Summer and  
The Watsons Go to Birmingham in this 

And this newspaper article from the Winston-Salem Journal.

Feeling very proud and very humble this morning!

4 comments:

Barbara O'Connor said...

Wonderful, Gusty.

PragmaticMom said...

Thanks for linking back to my post! I truly appreciated how your book gives insight on what it's like to be an "ordinary" kid living during those tumultuous times and how standing up was a really scary and dangerous thing but that everyone can be a hero and by standing up for what they believe in -- even it means attending a party -- can actually change the world.

Thank you for your wonderful book!

Carol Baldwin said...

that's great Augusta!

Lee Stokes Hilton said...

Sounds WONDERFUL. I'm thrilled for you. And this was just the beginning...