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Pillar of Fire
by Taylor Branch
Volume two of America in the King years, 1963 to 1965: Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Civil Rights Act, Malcolm X, Selma's beginnings. Vast and vivid.
Read it if…
you are continuing Branch's trilogy.
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Skip it if…
start with Parting the Waters.
Try instead: Stride Toward Freedom →
Three things you will actually use
- Movements fracture and persist.
- Law follows pressure.
- Many hands.
Do this first
Read the Freedom Summer chapters.
Our verdict
The King years, volume two.
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