Throughout his career, he was beset by criticism, rivalry, and divisiveness from both within and without his ranks. Branch often embeds events in an avalanche of detail about day-to-day goings-on that can be somewhat deadening but serves to make the point that there was no inevitability to the ultimate triumph of King. King’s commitment to nonviolence in the face of overwhelming provocation is stunning. and the Civil Rights movement covers so many momentous events, such as the assassinations of John Kennedy and Malcolm X, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, King’s Nobel Prize, and America’s entry into Vietnam, that it is difficult to believe that it spans a mere two years that also witnessed the exodus of black America from the Republican party to the Democratic. The second volume of Taylor Branch’s towering trilogy about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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