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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Why this matters here
Branch's first King Years volume covers the early movement through Birmingham and the 1963 March on Washington. When Authority Is Misread links those campaigns to the construction of public pressure, while retaining the distinction between documented events and the manuscript's analysis of how a leader becomes legible to wider audiences.
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