Parting The Waters: America In The King Years 1954-63

  • Author: Taylor Branch
  • Narrator: Janina Edwards
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 45:10:13
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Synopsis

In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.

Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.

Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder.

Epic in scope and impact, Branch's chronicle definitively captures one of the nation's most crucial passages.

Chapters

  • 001 PartingTheWaters IN

    Duration: 41s
  • 002 PartingTheWaters Preface

    Duration: 04min
  • 003 PartingTheWaters Chapter1 ForerunnerVernonJohns

    Duration: 01h20min
  • 004 PartingTheWaters Chapter2a RockefellerAndEbenezer

    Duration: 01h01min
  • 005 PartingTheWaters Chapter2b RockefellerAndEbenezer

    Duration: 01h01min
  • 006 PartingTheWaters Chapter3a NiebuhrAndThePoolTables

    Duration: 56min
  • 007 PartingTheWaters Chapter3b NiebuhrAndThePoolTables

    Duration: 52min
  • 008 PartingTheWaters Chapter4a FirstTrombone

    Duration: 58min
  • 009 PartingTheWaters Chapter4b FirstTrombone

    Duration: 54min
  • 010 PartingTheWaters Chapter5a TheMontgomeryBusBoycott

    Duration: 01h02min
  • 011 PartingTheWaters Chapter5b TheMontgomeryBusBoycott

    Duration: 01h08min
  • 012 PartingTheWaters Chapter5c TheMontgomeryBusBoycott v3

    Duration: 58min
  • 013 PartingTheWaters Chapter6a ATasteOfTheWorld

    Duration: 01h04min
  • 014 PartingTheWaters Chapter6b ATasteOfTheWorld

    Duration: 01h09min
  • 015 PartingTheWaters Chapter6c ATasteOfTheWorld

    Duration: 01h06min
  • 016 PartingTheWaters Chapter7a TheQuickening

    Duration: 01h01min
  • 017 PartingTheWaters Chapter7b TheQuickening

    Duration: 51min
  • 018 PartingTheWaters Chapter8a ShadesOfPolitics

    Duration: 56min
  • 019 PartingTheWaters Chapter8b ShadesOfPolitics

    Duration: 55min
  • 020 PartingTheWaters Chapter9 APawnOfHistory

    Duration: 01h21min
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