![]() The first volume in what is now planned as a trilogy, was published in 1988 and won the Pulitzer Prize for history. '' Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,'' Taylor Branch has been working on Martin Luther King Jr.'s biography for more years than King was active in the movement for civil rights. ![]() director so malicious that he would stop at nothing to destroy a man who believed Just to help make that comeĪbout, King had to overcome the determined resistance of terrorists without conscience, politicians without backbone, rivals without foresight and an F.B.I. Our century's destiny has been to insure that the ideal of civic equality announced to the world in 1776 would become a reality. It did so literally kicking and screaming, when not clubbing and killing. is to tell the story of how, more than 50 years after the century began, America finally became a modern society. ![]() O recount the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() More on Martin Luther King Jr., from The New York Times Archives runs from the March on Washington to Selma. The second volume of Taylor Branch's study of Martin Luther King Jr. ![]()
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