From the Archives: How Martin Luther King, Jr. Lit Up the World.
Writer Taylor Branch. The first volume of his exhaustive history of the Civil Rights movement - "Parting the Waters, America in the King Years"(SS) - was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1989. In it, Branch covered the period from 1954 to 1963. Branch is a former staff member of Harper's, and Esquire. This interview was originally broadcast on 12/05/1988.
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