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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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Named Person: | Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Taylor Branch |
ISBN: | 9781451678970 1451678975 9781451662467 1451662467 1451662475 9781451662474 |
OCLC Number: | 778990980 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King's first public address, 1955 -- Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960 -- Freedom rides I: the Nashville initiative, 1961 -- Freedom rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, and national politics, 1961 -- Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960-63 -- A national firestorm from Birmingham, 1963 -- The March on Washington, 1963 -- Birmingham church bombing, 1963 -- Freedom summer, 1964 -- Party realignment: the cow palace and Atlantic City, 1964 -- King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964 -- Crossroads in Selma, 1965 -- Crossroads in Viet Nam: MLK and LBJ, 1965 -- Nonviolence goes north: King in Chicago, 1966 -- Black power, 1966 -- Race and war: King at the Riverside Church, 1967 -- Poverty: the last crusade, 1967-68 -- Requiem in Memphis, 1968 -- Epilogue: looking back. |
Responsibility: | Taylor Branch. |
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"There will be the inevitable comparisons to Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln and Shelby Foote's The Civil War, two other masterworks that use the grand sweep of history to lay barethe nation's soul." * Chicago Tribune * "In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced." * The Wall Street Journal * "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 * Read more...
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- King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
- African Americans -- Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- History -- 1953-1961.
- United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
- United States -- History -- 1961-1974.
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