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Author Branch, Taylor.

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  323.11 Bra    ---  Available
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description x, 210 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note "Each of these titles has been previously published individually"--T.p. verso.
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: 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 -- Epilogue: looking back, and ahead.
Source NBK 1/13 PPL
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
United States -- History -- 1953-1961.
United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
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ISBN 9781451678970
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