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Binding Us Together: A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service Audiobook, by Alvin Brooks Play Audiobook Sample

Binding Us Together: A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service Audiobook

Binding Us Together: A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service Audiobook, by Alvin Brooks Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Alvin Brooks Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781524869779

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

27

Longest Chapter Length:

73:20 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

33:33 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A heartfelt, inspiring narrative that is inextricably linked to the nation’s past and present, civil rights activist and public servant Alvin Brooks shares engaging, funny, and tragic stories of his life and career of advocacy.

Few have faced adversity like Alvin Brooks has. He was born into an impoverished family, he nearly lost his adoptive father to the justice system of the South, and he barely survived a health crisis in infancy. However, his greatest challenges would be learning how to navigate a racist society as a young boy and then later protecting his beloved wife, Carol, and their six children.

Despite all the adversity he faced, Brooks became a lifelong leader and a servant of his community. Brooks served as one of Kansas City’s first Black police officers in the fifties, helped to heal the racial divide after the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., founded the AdHoc Group Against Crime, affecting real change in city government, and met with successive American presidents on national issues. When it comes to criminal justice, civil rights, and racial inequity, Brooks’s lifetime of building bridges across society’s divides helps us better understand our past, make sense of our present, and envision our future.

Alvin Brooks proves that a good heart, a generous spirit, and a lot of work can connect the world; one person can make a difference by binding us together.

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