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Main Title The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement /
Author Branch, Taylor.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Branch, Taylor.Parting the waters.
Branch, Taylor.Pillar of fire.
Branch, TaylorAt Canaan's edge.
Publisher Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
Year Published 2013
OCLC Number 865156751
ISBN 1451662467; 9781451662467
Subjects African Americans--Civil rights--History ; African Americans--Politics and government ; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century ; African Americans--Race identity ; United States--Race relations ; United States--History--1953-1961 ; United States--History--1961-1969
Additional Subjects King, Martin Luther,--Jr,--1929-1968
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EJAM  E185.61.B7913 2013 BEPAC Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 11/12/2014
Edition First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Collation 210 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Notes
"Selections from the America in the King Years Trilogy with New Introductions by the Author"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
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: LBJ and MLK, 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. A chronicle of key events in the civil rights movement tracing how it evolved from a bus strike to a political and social revolution.