num_pages: 746
description: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.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.
language: English
title: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
titlecomplete: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
characters: Andrew Young, Barry Goldwater, Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., John F. Kennedy, John Robert Lewis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fred Shuttlesworth, Muhammad Ali, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Hosea Williams, James Farmer, Elijah Muhammad, Burke Marshall, Deke DeLoach, Lee C. White, Ralph Abernathy, Roy Wilkins, J. Edgar Hoover, Clarence B. Jones, James Bevel, Malcolm X, Allard K. Lowenstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, Wilson Baker, James Forman, John Doar, Medgar Evers, McGeorge Bundy, George Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr., Aaron Henry, Bayard Rustin, Vernon Dahmer, Stanley Levison, Bob Moses
genres: Historical, Audiobook, American, History, Biography, African American, American History, Race, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2873
series: America in the King Years
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award
category: Books
publisher: Diane Pub.