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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Taylor Branch

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Parting the Waters is the first volume of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series, giving an account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War. Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder. Epic in scope and impact, Branch's chronicle definitively captures one of the nation's most crucial passages.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Year
2007
ISBN-13
9781416558682
Genre
History
Topics
Civil rights movementMartin Luther King Jr.American politics in the 1950s-60s

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