"Paul Kendrick" is an author of popular history. With his father, Stephen Kendrick, Paul co-authored Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, which describes the legal case, Roberts v. Boston, brought on behalf of Sarah Roberts, a black child who was not allowed to attend any of the five "whites-only" schools she passed on her daily walks to school, and the effect this had on the effort to desegregate Boston schools in the 1840s. The case led to the Separate but equal justification for Racial segregation/segregation.cite web

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I think part of it is just being comfortable with who you are. I think that's important. People can tell someone who's trying to be fake really quickly, but if you're yourself, people are more willing to accept you for who you are. I'm very clearly a white kid from Connecticut.

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I didn't see it as a really big deal when I got involved because I just started in something I cared about. It's always something I've felt very comfortable in.

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