Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63

Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63

First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. This 1000-page effort…

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