Inspired by the pioneering work of Jim McCloskey’s Centurion Ministry, he has supported the work of Innocence Projects and movements to abolish the death penalty. A Trenton, New Jersey native, Albert Maxwell Stark began his civil rights education registering voters in Selma and Tuscaloosa in 1956. He resigned as an Assistant Prosecutor after witnessing police testify falsely in court and beat demonstrators at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. He practiced law, advocating for people with brain, burn and spinal cord injuries. He pioneered the use of video in the courtroom. Victories led to safer cars, bicycles, recreational vehicles, industrial equipment, and roads. He is the author of Beyond the Bar – Challenges in a Lawyer’s Life (2002), A War Against Terror Through My Lens (2006) and Insider Secrets To Winning Your Personal Injury Battle (2009). He is married to Ellen and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
The Statement
by Albert Stark
The Statement
by Albert Stark
Published Mar 10, 2016
226 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Literary
Book Details
A Story That Transcends History’s Pages
In 1968, shortly after Martin Luther King’s assassination, young Lester Gold is drawn into signing a statement that implicates Salim Johnson, a leader in Trenton’s African-American community, in the murder of Lester’s father. The journey Lester must undergo to discover the true killer forces him to question his deepest allegiances, his faith, and his abiding love for the father who treated every person with humanity and respect. “An act of perjury leads to years of struggle and heartache in this debut novel. . . . A bildungsroman that convincingly evokes a turbulent era.” — Kirkus Reviews “A gripping novel, set in the racial hotbed of Trenton during the 1960s and 1970s, Stark’s story is true to the racial tensions of today.” — Edith Savage Jennings, Civil Rights marcher, decorated activist, and close friend of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King “This novel brings to life the lost world of our predominately Jewish neighborhood and Trenton’s Jewish, Italian and African-American characters.” —Herb Spiegel, Trenton businessman, professor and historian