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Pillar of Fire - America in the King Years, 1963-65 (Abridged, Standard format, CD, Abridged edition)
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Pillar of Fire - America in the King Years, 1963-65 (Abridged, Standard format, CD, Abridged edition)
Series: America in the King Years
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In "Pillar of Fire," the second volume of his America in the King
Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its
zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer
Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that
stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national
conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this
masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the
climactic struggles as they commanded the national and
international stage.
"Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963
to 1965 -- Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's
Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And
it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
-- haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to
hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in
history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that
went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters.
Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to
the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal
votes, equal souls.
Branch's gallery of historic characters also includes:
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