Social justice advocate Dr. Aaron Johnson has been beaten during lunch store counter sit-ins led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; prayed with death row inmates during his time as North Carolina’s first African-American Secretary of Corrections; stood blindfolded before the Ku Klux Klan; and traveled across the U.S. during racial unrest in an effort to subdue the violence and conflict after King’s death.
Author and Harding alumna Debbie Cleveland joins Johnson in telling his life story as he strove to uphold social justice in a world that could have killed him for his commitment in their new book, “Man From Macedonia: My Life of Service, Struggle, Faith and Hope.”
Both Cleveland and Johnson will visit Harding University next week, and Johnson will give a presentation in Cone Chapel Monday, March 15, at 7 p.m. The event is hosted by the College of Communication, The Roosevelt Institute, HUmanity and Pi Sigma Alpha, and is free and open to the public.
A book signing will be held at the bookstore in the Hammon Student Center Tuesday, March 16, at 10 a.m.
For more information, contact the College of Communication at 501-279-4445.
Cleveland published her first book in 2000 titled “Hugs From Heaven: Portraits of a Woman’s Faith” and wrote a weekly newspaper column, Footsteps and Heartbeats, for more than 17 years.
