Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 PDF
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Acclaim for the Pulitzer Prize winner Parting the Waters “In remarkable, meticulous detail, Branch provides us with the most complex and unsentimental version of King and his times yet produced.” —Robert C. Maynard, The Washington Post Book World “Endlessly instructive and fascinating, thorough, stupendous. Now the source and standard in its field.” —David Levering Lewis, The Philadelphia Inquirer “A compelling story, masterfully told.” —Richard John Neuhaus, The Wall Street Journal “A masterpiece…remarkably revealing…. The past, miraculously, seems to spring back to life.” —Jim Miller, Newsweek “Already, in this chronicle, there is the material of Iliad after Iliad…. There is no time in our history of which we can be more proud.” —Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books “Superb history.” —Robert Wilson, USA Today “A wide-ranging, monumental tapestry. Branch recounts the turbulent era with feeling and insight.” —David Anderson, United Press International “A brilliantly written saga that breathes life into the people and passions of the King years.” —Harold C. Fleming, The News and Observer Book World “A book that excites as the best history ought to…a notable achievement.” —Roger Harris, Newark Star-Ledger “A dense, elegant narrative that ranges from the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to the Oval Office. Branch has reconstructed an era that changed America forever.” —Kim Hubbard and Linda Kramer, People “Branch gives us a canvas as broad, varied and richly peopled as a medieval religious painting. Should be required reading for every black and white citizen of the state.” —Garland Reeves, The Birmingham News “A thrilling portrait.” —Ruth Gilbert, New York magazine “Branch has fit together all the pieces—the people, places, events—to show relationships, the larger picture we may have missed or forgotten. With this ordered, sweeping look at the movement and King, we are able to put things into perspective.” —Patsy Sims, Chicago Sun-Times “Important…a marvelous book about a man and a movement.” —Leslie W. Dunbar, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution “Simply superior in every aspect.” —Ray Jenkins, The Baltimore Sun Also by Taylor Branch Pillar of Fire Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest (with Charles Peters) Second Wind (with Bill Russell) The Empire Blues Labyrinth (with Eugene M. Propper) Simon & Schuster Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 1998 by Taylor Branch All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Branch, Taylor. Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954-63/Taylor Branch. p. cm. Bibliography. 1. Afro-Americans—Civil rights. 2. Civil rights movements— United States—History—20th century. 3. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 4. United States—History—1961-1969. I. Title. E185.61.B7915 1998 88-24033 CIP 973’0496073—dc19 ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5868-2 ISBN-10: 1-4165-5868-3 We are grateful for permission to quote from "Listen, Lord—A Prayer” in God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson. Copyright 1927 by The Viking Press, Inc. Copyright renewed 1955 by Grace Nail Johnson. Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www.SimonSays.com For the Choir of All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C. And in memory of Septima Poinsette Clark CONTENTS PREFACE 1. FORERUNNER: VERNON JOHNS 2. ROCKEFELLER AND EBENEZER 3. NIEBUHR AND THE POOL TABLES 4. FIRST TROMBONE 5. THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT 6. A TASTE OF THE WORLD 7. THE QUICKENING 8. SHADES OF POLITICS 9. A PAWN OF HISTORY 10. THE KENNEDY TRANSITION 11. BAPTISM ON WHEELS 12. THE SUMMER OF FREEDOM RIDES 13. MOSES IN McCOMB, KING IN KANSAS CITY 14. ALMOST CHRISTMAS IN ALBANY 15. HOOVER’S TRIANGLE AND KING’S MACHINE 16. THE FIREMAN’S LAST REPRIEVE 17. THE FALL OF OLE MISS 18. TO BIRMINGHAM 19. GREENWOOD AND BIRMINGHAM JAIL 20. THE CHILDREN’S MIRACLE 21. FIRESTORM 22. THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON 23. CROSSING OVER: NIGHTMARES AND DREAMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS USED IN SOURCE NOTES NOTES MAJOR WORKS CITED IN NOTES INDEX
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