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Carregando... The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (edição: 2013)de Taylor Branch (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I enjoyed reading this author's narrative history. He is lucid and compassionate. I may have time one day to read the full three volume history he has written to absorb all the detail he researched but this short (190 pages) book composed of 19 pieces snipped from the three volumes with short introductions gives a sense of the arc of the story. Here are some small items that I remember from this read. King made his first speech on the civil rights issues at the age of 26 and he died 12 years later. What a short life. In discussing the Watts riots (1965?) there is a quote from the LA Police chief about the end of the rioting "We are on top. They are on the bottom." Talk about community relations! ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieAmerica in the King Years (excerpts)
This work includes selections from the America in the King Years trilogy with new introductions by the author. The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the America in the King Years trilogy which includes Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan's Edge. This volume brings to life eighteen pivotal dramas, beginning with the impromptu speech that turned an untested, twenty six year old Martin Luther King forever into a public figure on the first night of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Five years later, minority students filled the jails in a 1960 sit-in movement, and, in 1961, the Freedom Riders seized national attention. The author interprets King's famous speech at the 1963 March on Washington and the Birmingham church bombing that challenged his dream. We see student leader Bob Moses mobilize college volunteers for Mississippi's 1964 Freedom Summer, and a decade long movement for equal rights. In the chapter "King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize" the author details the covert use of state power for a personal vendetta. The chapter "Crossroads in Selma" describes King's ordeal to steer the citizen's movement through hopes and threats. The chapter "Crossroads in Vietnam" glimpses the ominous wartime split between King and President Lyndon Johnson. As the Black Power slogan of Stokely Carmichael captivated a world grown weary of nonviolent protest, King grew ever more isolated. King "pushed downward into lonelier causes until he wound up among the sanitation workers of Memphis." A requiem chapter leads to his assassination.
A chronicle of key events in the civil rights movement traces how it evolved from a bus strike to a political and social revolution. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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