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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="15%"> <td width="85%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">King <td width="10%"> <td width="45%">The King Years <tr valign="top"> <td width="15%"><table width="120" align=left cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr><td align=left> <tr> <td align=left> <span class="tiny">Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 <td width="85%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">May: At age 25, King gives his first sermon as pastor-designate of Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. <td width="10%">1954 <td width="45%">May: French surrender to Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. Unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board outlaws segregated public education. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">December: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, which King is drafted to lead. <td width="10%">1955 <td width="45%"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">October: King spends his first night in jail, following his participation in an Atlanta sit-in. <td width="10%">1960 <td width="45%">February: Four students attempting to integrate a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter spark a national sit-in movement.
April: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded.
November: Election of President John F. Kennedy <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">May: The Freedom Rides begin, drawing violent responses as they challenge segregation throughout the South. King supports the riders during an overnight siege in Montgomery. <td width="10%">1961 <td width="45%">July: SNCC worker Bob Moses arrives for his first summer of voter registration in rural Mississippi.
August: East German soldiers seal off West Berlin behind the Berlin Wall. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">March: J. Edgar Hoover authorizes the bugging of Stanley Levinson, King's closest white advisor. <td width="10%">1962 <td width="45%">September: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi under massive federal protection. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">April: King, imprisoned for demonstrating in Birmingham, writes the "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
May: Images of police violence against marching children in Birmingham rivet the country.
August: King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington.
September: The Ku Klux Klan bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church kills four young girls. <td width="10%">1963 <td width="45%">June: Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers assassinated.
November: President Kennedy assassinated. <tr valign="top"> <td width="15%"><table width="120" align=left cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr><td align=left> <tr> <td align=left> <span class="tiny">Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 <td width="85%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%"> <td width="10%"> <td width="45%">November: Lyndon Johnson, in his first speech before Congress as president, promises to push through Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">March: King meets Malcolm X for the only time during Senate filibuster of civil rights legislation.
June: King joins St. Augustine, Florida, movement after months of protests and Klan violence.
October: King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and campaigns for Johnson's reelection.
November: Hoover calls King "the most notorious liar in the country" and the FBI sends King an anonymous "suicide package" containing scandalous surveillance tapes. <td width="10%">1964 <td width="45%">January: Johnson announces his "War on Poverty."
March: Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam following conflict with its leader, Elijah Muhammad.
June: Hundreds of volunteers arrive in the South for SNCC's Freedom Summer, three of whom are soon murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
July: Johnson signs Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
August: Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing military force in Vietnam. Democratic National Convention rebuffs the request by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to be seated in favor of all-white state delegation.
November: Johnson wins a landslide reelection. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">January: King's first visit to Selma, Alabama, where mass meetings and demonstrations will build through the winter. <td width="10%">1965 <td width="45%">February: Malcolm X speaks in Selma in support of movement, three weeks before his assassination in New York by Nation of Islam members. <tr valign="top"> <td width="15%"><table width="120" align=left cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr><td align=left> <a/> <tr> <td align=left> <span class="tiny">At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 <td width="85%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">March: Voting rights movement in Selma peaks with "Bloody Sunday" police attacks and, two weeks later, a successful march of thousands to Montgomery.
August: King rebuffed by Los Angeles officials when he attempts to advocate reforms after the Watts riots. <td width="10%"> <td width="45%">March: First U.S. combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech makes his most direct embrace of the civil rights movement.
May: Vietnam "teach-in" protest in Berkeley attracts 30,000.
June: Influential federal Moynihan Report describes the "pathologies" of black family structure.
August: Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act. Five days later, the Watts riots begin in Los Angeles.
<tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">January: King moves his family into a Chicago slum apartment to mark his first sustained movement in a Northern city.
June: King and Stokely Carmichael continue James Meredith's March Against Fear after Meredith is shot and wounded. Carmichael gives his first "black power" speech.
July: King's marches for fair housing in Chicago face bombs, bricks, and "white power" shouts. <td width="10%">1966 <td width="45%">February: Operation Rolling Thunder, massive U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, begins.
May: Stokely Carmichael wins the presidency of SNCC and quickly turns the organization away from nonviolence.
October: National Organization for Women founded, modeled after black civil rights groups. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">April: King's speech against the Vietnam War at New York's Riverside Church raises a storm of criticism
December: King announces plans for major campaign against poverty in Washington, D.C., for 1968. <td width="10%">1967 <td width="45%">May: Huey Newton leads Black Panthers in armed demonstration in California state assembly.
June: Johnson nominates former NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.
July: Riots in Newark and Detroit.
October: Massive mobilization against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="45%">March: King joins strike of Memphis sanitation workers.
April: King gives his "Mountaintop" speech in Memphis. A day later, he is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. <td width="10%">1968 <td width="45%">January: In Tet Offensive, Communist guerillas stage a surprise coordinated attack across South Vietnam.
March: Johnson cites divisions in the country over the war for his decision not to seek reelection in 1968.

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Branch is such a beautiful writer. I definitely want to check out this book.

"We must rec...more...]]> 59876413 2286239 99199 0333529456 9780333529454 72 <![CDATA[Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179615022m/99199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99199.Parting_the_Waters_Martin_Luther_King_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_1954_63 4.52 406 5 0 false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:08:58 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 13:52:09 -0700 2009 www.comingtothetable.org) which brings together descendants of the enslaved and the enslavers in the spirit of Dr. King's dream that "the sons of former slaves and slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of B...more...]]> 3208666 198348 414077 0671687425 9780671687427 15 <![CDATA[Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174526628m/414077.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414077.Parting_the_Waters_America_in_the_King_Years_1954_63 4.72 65 Parting the Waters is more than just a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. Branch's thousand-page effort, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, profiles the key players and events that helped shape the American social landscape following World War II but before the civil-rights movement of the 1960s reached its climax. The author then goes a step further, endeavoring to explain how the struggles evolved as they did by probing the influences of the main actors while discussing the manner in which events conspired to create fertile ground for change. <p align=center> <span class="h1">Timeline of a Trilogy</span> <p align=left>Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series is both a biography of Martin Luther King and a history of his age. No timeline can do justice to its wide cast of characters and its intricate web of incident, but here are some of the highlights, which might be useful as a scorecard to the trilogy's nearly 3,000 pages.

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