The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

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The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogyParting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaans Edge.

Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for todays world. This vital primer amply fulfills Branchs dedication: For students of freedom and teachers of history.

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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 *
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 *
There will be the inevitable comparisons to Carl Sandburgs Abraham Lincoln and Shelby Footes The Civil War, two other masterworks that use the grand sweep of history to lay barethe nations soul. * Chicago Tribune *

Author Bio

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 Canaans 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.