Down from the mountain: Taylor Branch shows how the end of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement marked the beginning of liberalism's crack-up.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, March 2006
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On Political Books - At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 - Book Review
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Down from the mountain: Taylor Branch shows how the end of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement marked the beginning of liberalism's crack-up.
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 By Taylor Branch Simon & Schuster, $35.00
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the civil rights movement north in July 1966. He began with a rally at Chicago's Soldier Field, one that was attended by 45,000 people, boycotted by Chicago's most influential black church leader who resented the intrusion of such a famous outsider on his turf, and picketed by the American Nazi Party. It was a very hot day, and King, who had arrived at Soldier Field in a white limousine, spoke from under a dainty parasol. He protested the invidiousness of subtle, Northern forms of racism and announced that he and t...See the full content of this document
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