Parting the Waters
America in the King Years 1954-63
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2007
1088 pages
978-1-4165-5868-2 (ISBN)
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Taylor Branch is the author of Pillar of Fire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, Christina Macy, and their two children, Macy and Franklin.
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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
- COVER
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- 1. FORERUNNER: VERNON JOHNS
- 2. ROCKEFELLER AND EBENEZER
- 3. NIEBUHR AND THE POOL TABLES
- 4. FIRST TROMBONE
- 5. THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
- 6. A TASTE OF THE WORLD
- 7. THE QUICKENING
- 8. SHADES OF POLITICS
- 9. A PAWN OF HISTORY
- 10. THE KENNEDY TRANSITION
- 11. BAPTISM ON WHEELS
- 12. THE SUMMER OF FREEDOM RIDES
- 13. MOSES IN McCOMB, KING IN KANSAS CITY
- 14. ALMOST CHRISTMAS IN ALBANY
- 15. HOOVER'S TRIANGLE AND KING'S MACHINE
- 16. THE FIREMAN'S LAST REPRIEVE
- 17. THE FALL OF OLE MISS
- 18. TO BIRMINGHAM
- 19. GREENWOOD AND BIRMINGHAM JAIL
- 20. THE CHILDREN'S MIRACLE
- 21. FIRESTORM
- 22. THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
- 23. CROSSING OVER: NIGHTMARES AND DREAMS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN SOURCE NOTES
- NOTES
- MAJOR WORKS CITED IN NOTES
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES
- COPYRIGHT
