The King years
Subtitle: historic moments in the civil rights movement
By: by Taylor Branch
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781451678970; 9781451662467; 9781451662474
Subjects: Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Table of contents: title: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King's first public address, 1955; title: Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960; title: Freedom rides I: the Nashville initiative, 1961; title: Freedom rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, and national politics, 1961; title: Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960-63; title: A national firestorm from Birmingham, 1963; title: The March on Washington, 1963; title: Birmingham church bombing, 1963; title: Freedom summer, 1964; title: Party realignment: the cow palace and Atlantic City, 1964; title: King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964; title: Crossroads in Selma, 1965; title: Crossroads in Viet Nam: MLK and LBJ, 1965; title: Nonviolence goes north: King in Chicago, 1966; title: Black power, 1966; title: Race and war: King at the Riverside Church, 1967; title: Poverty: the last crusade, 1967-68; title: Requiem in Memphis, 1968; title: Epilogue: looking back.