The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch
A compact volume that begins with 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. delivering a speech that propels him into his destiny during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The author interprets King’s famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” relives the Birmingham church bombing and details the covert use of power by the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover for a personal vendetta.
