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Name: Parting the Waters

Full name: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years

Author: Taylor Branch
Year: 1988
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History, Award winners, Non Fiction, Biographies, Politics
Culture: African-American

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ISBNs:
9780671687427
9780333529454
0671687425
0333529456

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.

This book is part of the "America in the King Years" series. Here are some other books from this series:

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"Pillar of Fire"
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