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The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement / Taylor Branch.

Other Titles: Parting the waters.
Pillar of fire.
At Canaan's edge.

Author: Branch, Taylor.

Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

ISBN: 9781451678970 (hbk.)
1451678975 (hbk.)
9781451662467 (pbk.)
1451662467 (pbk.)
9781451662474 (ebk.)
1451662475 (ebk.)

Description: x, 210 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject: 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.

Notes: Includes index.

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 Vietnam: 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 -- Looking back, and ahead.

Summary: "Selections from the America in the King years trilogy with new introductions by the author"--Jacket.

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