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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 9780929264 8750929264878 LCCN 90063902 Classification - LC F294.A89 N427 1991 Classification - Dewey 975.80049607302 OCLC 24223077 SIGNED presentation by author on front endpaper, with color photograph of the moment ; Clayton's varied career has included stints as civil rights worker with Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, first black person to host a regular TV show in the South and "undercover agent" exposing job discrimination for the Urban League in Chicago. She was with King the day before he was killed, and helped Coretta Scott King through the difficult days immediately after his death. As an organizer for Atlanta's Model Cities program in the 1960s, she had sessions with Calvin Craig, then grand dragon of Georgia's Ku Klux Klan, which prompted his decision to leave the KKK and renounce his racist views. Daughter of a Baptist minister from Oklahoma, Clayton, now assistant corporate vice-president for urban affairs with the Turner Broadcasting System, writes with brio and dignity in this warm, spirited autobiography. She illuminates the overt and hidden barriers she has had to overcome ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…