Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 Audiobook (Free)

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 utmost masterful story ever informed from the American civil legal rights movement, Parting the Waters is usually destined to endure for generations.

Moving from your fiery political baptism of Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., towards the corridors of Camelot where in fact the Kennedy brothers weighed needs for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, this is a brilliant tapestry of America, torn and lastly transformed with a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.

Taylor Branch has an unsurpassed family portrait of King’s rise to greatness and illuminates the beautiful courage and private conflict, the offers, 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 range and impact, Branch’s chronicle definitively captures one of the nation’s most important passages.