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    Interview Excerpt of Mr. Nelson Malden

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    Nelson Malden is a businessman, community activist, and storyteller. Born in Monrovia, Alabama, the youngest of Cleveland and Mary Fannie Malden’s nine sons, Nelson Malden moved with his family to Pensacola at an early age and attended the local schools. In 1959, he earned a Bachelor’s degree at what became Alabama State University. In the ‘50s, he and a brother partnered in the Malden Brothers Barbershop, located at a thriving community intersection and he joined what became the Dexter-King Baptist Church. Malden participated in signature civil rights activities, interacting with prominent leaders, including Laurence Reddick, Ralph Abernathy, and Martin Luther King. He was sales manager for the Southern Courier, a civil rights newspaper. For such contributions, the Obama Administration honored him. In 2018, drawing upon a wealth of experience and wisdom, he co-authored "The Colored Waiting Room." Malden was married to the former Willodean Mitchell

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    Excerpt from Jeffery Johnson, keynote speaker, Martin Luther King Day Convocation, 2003

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    Jeffery Johnson, communications specialist and journalist, spoke at the Rev. Martin Luther King Day Convocation ASU in 2003. In this excerpt Johnson analyzes the celebration of Black History Month

    Interview Excerpt with ASU Civil Rights Icon, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

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    Staff with the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture sat down with three ASU alumni who are widely considered icons of the civil rights movement. These men discussed both their experience at ASU and their role in the civil rights movement. The interviewee is Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 1951 ASU graduate, past president of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and leader of Birmingham’s Operation Confrontation

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