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Branch, Taylor.Branch, Taylor.
Summary: Branch condenses his three-volume chronicle on race and democracy to its pivotal scenes, taking listeners on a journey in to a political revolution that would change the face of America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.0973 BRABranch, Taylor.
Summary: This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRABranch, Taylor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.929 BRABranch, Taylor.
Summary: Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRABranch, Taylor.
Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998