Pillar of Fire: American in the King Years, 1963-65
Item Number
E185.61.B7915
Author/Artist/Editor
Taylor Branch
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
1998
Press/Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965 - Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of