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At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch.
Publication details: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007, c2006.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. edDescription: xiii, 1039 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780684857138 (pbk.) :
- 0684857138 (pbk.) :
- E185.615 .B67 2007
Contents:
Summary: This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selmas Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party, while Stokely Carmichael leaves the movement in frustration to proclaim his famous Black Power doctrine. King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes, exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than those in the South. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War, and make an embattled decision to concentrate on poverty; we reach Memphis, the garbage workers strike, and Kings assassination.--From publisher description.
Selma: the last revolution -- High tide -- Crossroads in freedom and war -- Passion.
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| E 185.61 .W63 1988 A death in the delta : the story of Emmett Till / | E 185.61 .W86 1966 The strange career of Jim Crow | E 185.615 .A77 1996 Color conscious : the political morality of race / | E 185.615 .B67 2007 At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / | E 185.615 .C6335 2015 Between the world and me / | E 185.615 .H275 1996 Pick a better country : an unassuming colored guy speaks his mind about America / | E 185.615 .H288 2012 The price of the ticket : Barack Obama and the rise and decline of Black politics / |
Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 981-992) and index.
This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selmas Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party, while Stokely Carmichael leaves the movement in frustration to proclaim his famous Black Power doctrine. King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes, exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than those in the South. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War, and make an embattled decision to concentrate on poverty; we reach Memphis, the garbage workers strike, and Kings assassination.--From publisher description.
Selma: the last revolution -- High tide -- Crossroads in freedom and war -- Passion.
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