“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 Book Review
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 trilogy.
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 today’s world told in “remarkable, meticulous detail” (The Wall Street Journal).
With this vital primer, Branch relates the dramatic story of how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience, sufficiently fulfilling Branch’s dedication: “For students of freedom and teachers of history.”
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King’s First Public Address, 1955
- Chapter 2: Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960
- Chapter 3: Freedom Rides I: The Nashville Initiative, 1961
- Chapter 4: Freedom Rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, and National Politics, 1961
- Chapter 5: Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960–63
- Chapter 6: A National Firestorm from Birmingham, 1963
- Chapter 7: The March on Washington, 1963
- Chapter 8: Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963
- Chapter 9: Freedom Summer, 1964
- Chapter 10: Party Realignment: The Cow Palace and Atlantic City, 1964
- Chapter 11: King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
- Chapter 12: Crossroads in Selma, 1965
- Chapter 13: Crossroads in Vietnam: LBJ and MLK, 1965
- Chapter 14: Nonviolence Goes North: King in Chicago, 1966
- Chapter 15: Black Power, 1966
- Chapter 16: Race and War: King at the Riverside Church, 1967
- Chapter 17: Poverty: The Last Crusade, 1967–68
- Chapter 18: Requiem in Memphis, 1968
- Epilogue: Looking Back, and Ahead
- Acknowledgments
- About Taylor Branch
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Copyright
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