Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-63 (America in the King Years)

by Taylor Branch

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Analyzing the beginnings of black self-consciousness, this book maps the structure of segregation and bigotry in America between 1954 and 1963. The author considers the constantly changing behaviour of those in Washington with regard to the injustice of offical racism operating in many states at this time. This book won the 1989 Martin Luther King Memorial prize.
  • ISBN10 0333529456
  • ISBN13 9780333529454
  • Publish Date 14 June 1990 (first published 15 November 1988)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 October 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Papermac
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 1065
  • Language English