Kyle Harrison
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Parting the Waters (Taylor Branch)
Parting the Waters (Taylor Branch)
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 (Simon & Schuster, 1988).
Why it’s on the list: Volume one of Taylor Branch’s three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. Kyle saved the series as a whole.
Where I saw it: Saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Things To Internet” (c. 2014) as “Taylor branch’s three volume series on MLK Jr..”
Metadata checked: Open Library (Simon & Schuster, 1988; median 1,064 pages). Volume 1 of 3.
Connections
The trilogy is Taylor Branch’s America in the King Years: Parting the Waters (Taylor Branch) (1988), Pillar of Fire (Taylor Branch) (1998) and At Canaan’s Edge (Taylor Branch) (2006).
Not yet read.