Name: Parting the Waters
ISBN: 9780000001830

Parting the Waters

by Taylor Branch

1988Pocket BooksPulitzer

Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.

Topics

civil-rights civil-rights-activism civil-rights-movement

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