[America in the King Years 01] • Parting the Waters · America in the King Years, 1954-63
- Authors
- Branch, Taylor
- Publisher
- Simon Schuster
- Tags
- political science , civil rights movements , 60s , history , biography & autobiography , history - u.s. , general , ethnic studies , c 1945 to c 1960 , ethnic studies - african american studies - histor , military history , 50s , biography , united states - 20th century , social science , world history , king; martin luther , political freedom & security , united states - history - 1953-1961 , cultural heritage , politics , united states - race relations - history - 20th century , афроамериканци , second world war , united states , сащ , american history: from c 1900 - , civil rights movements - united states - history - 20th century , afro-americans , civil rights , usa , african american studies , african americans , american history , black studies , 20th century , history: american , граждански права , history of the americas , african americans - civil rights , ethnic studies - african american studies - general , c 1960 to c 1970
- ISBN
- 9780671687427
- Date
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.21 MB
- Lang
- en
In volume one of his *America in the King Years,* Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, *Parting the Waters* is destined to endure for generations.
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.