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Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-64

Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, jr., the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism.

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  • "America in the King years, 1963-65"@en

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  • "Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, jr., the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism."@en
  • "In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965 - Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. - haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Branch brings to bear fifteen years of research - archival investigation; nearly two thousand interviews; new primary sources, from FBI wiretaps to White House telephone recordings - in a seminal work of history."
  • "Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the Kennedy assassination through the Civil Rights Act."@en
  • "In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage."@en

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  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-64"@en
  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963 - 65"
  • "Pillar of fire America in the King years, 1963-65"@en
  • "Pillar of fire America in the King years, 1963-65"
  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years 1963-65"
  • "Pillar of fire : America in the king years 1963-65"
  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65"
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  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years 1963 - 65"
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  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65 : [uncorrected proof]"@en
  • "Pillar of fire"
  • "Pillar of fire : America in the King Years 1963-65"
  • "Pillar of fire America in the King Years, 1963-65"

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