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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
The King Years Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement Author:Taylor Branch The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy?Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan?s Edge.The King Years brings to life eighteen pivotal dramas, beginning with the impromptu speech that turned an untested, twe... more »nty-six-year-old Martin Luther King forever into a public figure on the first night of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Five years later, minority students filled the jails in a 1960 sit-in movement, and, in 1961, the Freedom Riders seized national attention. Branch interprets King?s famous speech at the 1963 March on Washington and the Birmingham church bombing that challenged his dream. We see student leader Bob Moses mobilize college volunteers for Mississippi?s 1964 Freedom Summer, and a decade-long movement for equal rights. ?Crossroads in Selma? describes King?s ordeal to steer the citizen?s movement through hopes and threats. ?Crossroads in Vietnam? glimpses the ominous wartime split between King and President Lyndon Johnson. As the Black Power slogan of Stokely Carmichael captivated a world grown weary of nonviolent protest, King grew ever more isolated. King ?pushed downward into lonelier causes until he wound up among the sanitation workers of Memphis.? A requiem chapter leads to his assassination.« less
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