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At Canaan's Edge

America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)

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An edition of At Canaan's edge (2006)

At Canaan's Edge

America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)

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This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party, while Stokely Carmichael leaves the movement in frustration to proclaim his famous Black Power doctrine. King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes, exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than those in the South. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War, and make an embattled decision to concentrate on poverty; we reach Memphis, the garbage workers' strike, and King's assassination. - Publisher.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
1056

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Subjects

History Civil rights African Americans Civil rights movements Burgerrechten Civil Rights Movement Rassenverhoudingen Civil rights movements, united states King, martin luther, jr., 1929-1968 United states, history, 1961-1969 African americans, civil rights New York Times reviewed

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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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United States

Times

20th century 1961-1969
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)
January 9, 2007, Simon & Schuster
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At Canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68
2006, Simon & Schuster
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one : Selma : the last revolution.
1. Warning
2. Scouts
3. Dissent
4. Boxed in
5. Over the bridge
6. The call
7. Devil's choice
8. The ghost of London
9. Wallace and the Archbishop
10. And we shall overcome
11. Half-inch hailstones
12. Neutralize their anxieties
13. To Montgomery
14. The stakes of history
15. Aftershocks
16. Bearings in a whirlwind
Part two : High tide.
17. Ten feet tall
18. Leaps of faith
19. Gulps of freedom
20. Fort Deposit
21. Watts and Hayneville
22. Fragile alliance
23. Identity
Part three : Crossroads in freedom and war.
24. Enemy politics
25. Inside out
26. Refugees
27. Break points
28. Panther ladies
29. Meredith march
30. Chicago
31. Valley moments
32. Backlash
Part four : Passion.
33. Spy visions
34. Riverside
35. Splinters
36. King's choice
37. New Year trials
38. Memphis
39. Requiem
Epilogue

Edition Notes

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New York
Series
America in the King years ; v. 3
Copyright Date
2006

Classifications

Library of Congress
E185.615.B67 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 1039 p.
Number of pages
1056
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
Weight
2.8 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7722344M
ISBN 10
0684857138
ISBN 13
9780684857138
LibraryThing
83731
Goodreads
95777

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OL2741907W

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