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

  • 021 PartingTheWaters Chapter10a TheKennedyTransition

    Duration: 55min
  • 022 PartingTheWaters Chapter10b TheKennedyTransition

    Duration: 40min
  • 023 PartingTheWaters Chapter11a BaptismOnWheels

    Duration: 59min
  • 024 PartingTheWaters Chapter11b BaptismOnWheels

    Duration: 51min
  • 025 PartingTheWaters Chapter12a TheSummerOfFreedomRides

    Duration: 50min
  • 026 PartingTheWaters Chapter12b TheSummerOfFreedomRides

    Duration: 01h08min
  • 027 PartingTheWaters Chapter13a MosesInMcCombKingInKansas

    Duration: 46min
  • 028 PartingTheWaters Chapter13b MosesInMcCombKingInKansas

    Duration: 47min
  • 029 PartingTheWaters Chapter14a AlmostChristmasInAlbany

    Duration: 59min
  • 030 PartingTheWaters Chapter14b AlmostChristmasInAlbany

    Duration: 52min
  • 031 PartingTheWaters Chapter15a HooversTriangleAndKingsMachine

    Duration: 01h07s
  • 032 PartingTheWaters Chapter15b HooversTriangleAndKingsMachine

    Duration: 55min
  • 033 PartingTheWaters Chapter16a TheFiremansLastReprieve

    Duration: 45min
  • 034 PartingTheWaters Chapter16b TheFiremansLastReprieve

    Duration: 47min
  • 035 PartingTheWaters Chapter17a TheFallOfOleMiss

    Duration: 01h00s
  • 036 PartingTheWaters Chapter17b TheFallOfOleMiss

    Duration: 57min
  • 037 PartingTheWaters Chapter18a ToBirmingham

    Duration: 57min
  • 038 PartingTheWaters Chapter18b ToBirmingham

    Duration: 42min
  • 039 PartingTheWaters Chapter19a GreenwoodAndBirminghamJail v3

    Duration: 01h09min
  • 040 PartingTheWaters Chapter19b GreenwoodAndBirminghamJail

    Duration: 01h11min
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