Join award-winning broadcast journalists Karen Gray Houston and Maggie Linton in discussion about Gray Houston’s newly released book, Daughter of the Boycott.

In 1950, before Montgomery knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, before the city’s famous boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white policeman during an encounter involving a ride on a city bus. Brooks andThomas Gray played football together as kids. Gray and other fellow veterans, outraged about an unjustifiable fatal shooting, protested, eventually staging a major march against police brutality downtown. Five years later, Gray protested again, this time against the unjust treatment of Negroes on the city's segregated buses. Daughter of the Boycott is Karen Gray Houston’s story of her family’s involvement in the historic Montgomery bus boycott, the action that kick-started the civil rights movement.

Karen Gray Houston is an award-winning broadcast journalist whose career has spanned more than four decades, including 20 years as a local news reporter for Washington, DC’s WTTG-TV, Fox-5. She was a correspondent for NBC News covering the Reagan White House and the US Capitol, an anchor for the ABC Radio Network, as well as a reporter/anchor for WTOP News Radio in DC and WHDH-AM in Boston. She lives near Washington, DC.

Maggie Linton is an award-winning broadcaster with over 48-years of experience. Her career began at the University of Kansas as a Sports Anchor with the KU Sports Network.  Over the years, she has hosted numerous local, national and network talk shows on radio and TV, appeared in feature films (Hairspray (the original) and Guarding Tess), TV network dramas (Homicide: Life On The Streets and The Wire), plus regional and national commercials. Maggie is the former host and executive producer of the Maggie Linton Show on Sirius XM Radio. She presently produces and hosts a podcast Sharing the Journey podcast and is a licensed life insurance broker and Regional Marketing Director with First Financial Security. Maggie is married with 3-children, 2-grandchildren and lives in Maryland.

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