Don Keith
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As a child, Shelley Stewart witnessed his father murder his mother; homeless, Stewart suffered from abuse and discrimination. Against the odds, Stewart graduated high school and became a hugely successful radio personality, as well as one of the nation’s first black radio station owners.
Stewart also entered into a silent business partnership with a white friend when such an arrangement could not be made public; that partnership developed into one of the country’s most successful advertising agencies, o2ideas.
Stewart faced additional challenges when he helped Martin Luther King mount the Children’s March through Birmingham, and used his powerful voice to help convict one of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombers. Stewart later created the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation, named after his late mother, to work to help high school students stay in school and graduate.
Stewart, with author Don Keith, tells his powerful story in his memoir Mattie C.’s Boy.
Available in hardcover ($29.95) and ebook ($9.99). 320 pages.
ISBN 978-1-60306-313-5.
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