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Image one: Book titled Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988) - synopsis: Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder. - available in the UNT Dallas Library Collection

Image two: Book titled Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1999) - synopsis: In the second volume of his three-part history, beginning with Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climatic struggles as they commanded the national stage. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection