Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Language: English
20th Century 50s 60s African American Studies African Americans African Americans - Civil rights Afro-Americans American history American history: from c 1900 - Biography & Autobiography Black studies Civil Rights Civil rights movements Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century Cultural Heritage Ethnic Studies Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor General History History - U.S. History of the Americas History: American King; Martin Luther Military History Political Political Freedom & Security Political Science Second World War Social Science USA United States United States - 20th Century United States - History - 1953-1961 United States - Race relations - History - 20th century World history c 1945 to c 1960 c 1960 to c 1970 Афроамериканци Граждански права САЩ
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Oct 15, 1988
Description:
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.