Harding University to feature authors of “Man From Macedonia”
SEARCY, Ark. — Social justice advocate Dr. Aaron Johnson has beenbeaten 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.
