{"product_id":"binding-us-together-a-civil-rights-activist-reflects-on-a-lifetime-of-community-and-public-service","title":"Binding Us Together: A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service","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.\n\nA 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.\n\nFew 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.\n\nDespite 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.\n\nAlvin 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1524867764\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1524867764.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Brooks, Alvin\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43403536105533,"sku":"BVV.1524867764.VG","price":8.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1524867764-0.jpg?v=1785187471","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/binding-us-together-a-civil-rights-activist-reflects-on-a-lifetime-of-community-and-public-service","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}