The first ten readers to request a copy of Uptown One Saturday Night, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s attempted assassination in 1958, will receive a digital copy of the book absolutely FREE. Email UptownOneSaturdayNight@gmail.com and insert Black History Month Book Bonus in the subject line. Please allow 3 – 5 days for receipt of your copy. Offer expires 2/29/24. Uptown One Saturday Night is a must have for every family’s book collection.
Author and journalist Regi Taylor’s new book, Uptown One Saturday Night, chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s near murder in Harlem, New York City, in 1958, and the near miracle surgery that saved his life, a full decade before his March 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. Many historical, political and media professionals share the opinion that had Dr. King succumbed to the sharpened 7-inch letter opener his attacker, Izola Ware Curry, used to nearly penetrate his main heart artery, America might still be the white supremacist Jim Crow nation it was prior to President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Dr. King himself described his confrontation with death: “If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1960…” This book reveals new details.
Dr. King’s remarkable activism during the 1960’s is largely responsible for the civil rights legislation which was enacted just two generations ago. The new laws changed the trajectory of the nation’s racist culture and transformed America into a country whose democratic practices more closely align with its principles. However, Taylor notes, “With each successive generation, the history that made Blacks beneficiaries of civil rights is fading from the collective memory.” Taylor wants families to know how African Americans transformed from chattel to citizens with equal rights. He shares, “As the saying goes: ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Taylor reminds us that the forces that opposed unfettered civil rights for Black people in 1958, variously called the KKK, Birchers, and Nazis, have not forgotten – in 2024 they’re called MAGA. Taylor proclaims, “Know your history, be vigilant, and vote.”
To become more informed about our nation’s civil rights hero, Dr. King, and Black History in America during the Civil Rights Movement, purchase Uptown One Saturday Night from Amazon now.
