num_pages: 768
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: Fannie Lou Hamer, Stanley Levison, Medgar Evers, Hosea Williams, McGeorge Bundy, Aaron Henry, Andrew Young, John Robert Lewis, Robert McNamara, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ralph Abernathy, J. Edgar Hoover, Wilson Baker, Muhammad Ali, Roy Wilkins, Barry Goldwater, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Fred Shuttlesworth, Lee C. White, Martin Luther King Jr., Burke Marshall, Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, Allard K. Lowenstein, Bob Moses, Vernon Dahmer, John F. Kennedy, Deke DeLoach, James Forman, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., James Bevel, Clarence B. Jones, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Farmer, John Doar
genres: Audiobook, American, Politics, Historical, Biography, Race, American History, African American, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2873
series: America in the King Years
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award
category: Books
publisher: Simon & Schuster