
The King Years
Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
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Narrated by:
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Leslie Odom Jr.
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By:
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Taylor Branch
The essential moments of the civil rights movement are introduced and set in historical context by the author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge.
Taylor Branch's three-volume history endures as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. With this brief volume, which brings to life the pivotal scenes, he relates the dramatic story of how the movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolution, and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience.
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This is the author's best hits from his trilogy.What does Leslie Odom, Jr. bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He did a perfect job.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Too many to mention.Excellent
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beautiful and very informative
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[I listened to this as an audiobook read by Leslie Odom, Jr. who did the best he could with the unenviable task of performing some of the most well-known speeches in American history by some of our most famous orators. Wisely realizing King and Kennedy are inimitable, Odom reads their famous lines in more or less his own voice, but this just made it all the more obvious that this content is better consumed either in written form, or by listening to the original speakers. As an audio book, I would not recommend this.]
Just made me want to watch Eyes on the Prize
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