Lyndon Johnson, who believed racial conflict was destroying his political base in the South and threatening his dream to end poverty. Branch's gallery of historic characters also includes: Malcolm X, who challenged King's vision of nonviolent integration and lived under threat of death from the Nation of Islam. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.- haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma.
"Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965- Dallas, St. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage.
It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. 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.
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