The King Years
Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2013
224 pages
978-1-4516-6247-4 (ISBN)
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?Right out of the pages of our lives...Compelling portraits placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.? ?The New York Times Book Review
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.
A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for today's world told in ?remarkable, meticulous detail? (The Wall Street Journal).
With this vital primer, Branch relates the dramatic story of how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience, sufficiently fulfilling Branch's dedication: ?For students of freedom and teachers of history.?
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.
A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for today's world told in ?remarkable, meticulous detail? (The Wall Street Journal).
With this vital primer, Branch relates the dramatic story of how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience, sufficiently fulfilling Branch's dedication: ?For students of freedom and teachers of history.?
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Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE -The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin LutherKing's First Public Address, 1955
- CHAPTER TWO -Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee (SNCC), 1960
- CHAPTER THREE -Freedom Rides I: The Nashville Initiative, 1961
- CHAPTER FOUR -Freedom Rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, andNational Politics, 1961
- CHAPTER FIVE -Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960-63
- CHAPTER SIX -A National Firestorm from Birmingham, 1963
- CHAPTER SEVEN -The March on Washington, 1963
- CHAPTER EIGHT -Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963
- CHAPTER NINE -Freedom Summer, 1964
- CHAPTER TEN -Party Realignment: The Cow Palace and AtlanticCity, 1964
- CHAPTER ELEVEN -King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel PeacePrize, 1964
- CHAPTER TWELVE -Crossroads in Selma, 1965
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -Crossroads in Vietnam: LBJ and MLK, 1965
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN -Nonviolence Goes North: King in Chicago, 1966
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -Black Power, 1966
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN -Race and War: King at the Riverside Church,1967
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN -Poverty: The Last Crusade, 1967-68
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN -Requiem in Memphis, 1968
- EPILOGUE -Looking Back, and Ahead
- Acknowledgments
- Index
