num_pages: 1064
description: In "Parting the Waters", Branch chronicles the Civil Rights struggle, from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through King's fiery political baptism, the ascension of John F Kennedy, and ultimately, the dawning of the New South. Moving from the black churches where the movement began in anthems, sermons, and prayers, to Washington, where the Kennedy brothers weighed the demands of a down-trodden people against the volatile realities of politics, Branch weaves a tapestry of exciting stories - the Montgomery bus boycott, the Freedom Rides, and - as the movement reached its apex - the tragedy of Kennedy's assassination. Taylor Branch is a former staff member of "The Washington Monthly", "Harper's", and "Esquire". Co-author of "Second Wind" and "Labyrinth", he is also the author of a novel "The Empire Blues".
language: English
title: Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
titlecomplete: Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
characters: Martin Luther King Jr.
genres: African American, Race, Nonfiction, History, Historical, Social Justice, American History, American, Politics, Biography
ratings_count: 9592
series: America in the King Years
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Pan Macmillan