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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
xiv, 746 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF PARTING THE WATERS AND PILLAR OF FIRE At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr., earned a place next to James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Series
Library of America volume 137-138
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Basic Civitas Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xii, 290 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cultural critic reassesses the late civil rights leader's significance and influence on American society, as well as the ways in which his death transformed the discussion of race in America.
11) To be equal
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1964]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
254 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
15) The free men
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xi, 340 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.
Language
English
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