At Canaan's Edge

America in the King Years, 1965-68

By: Taylor Branch

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Paperback | 1 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history.

The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north.

At Canaan's Edge traces a seminal era in our defining national story, freedom. The narrative resumes in Selma, crucible of the voting rights struggle for black people across the South. The time is early 1965, when the modern Civil Rights Movement enters its second decade since the Supreme Court's Brown decision declared segregation by race a violation of the Constitution.

From Selma, King's non-violent Movement is under threat from competing forces inside and outside. Branch chronicles the dramatic voting rights drives in Mississippi and Alabama, Meredith's murder, the challenge to King from the Johnson Administration and the FBI and other enemies. When King tries to bring his Movement north (to Chicago), he falters. Finally we reach Memphis, the garbage strike, King's assassination.

Branch's magnificent trilogy makes clear why the Civil Rights Movement, and indeed King's leadership, are among the nation's enduring achievements.

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"The crowning achievement of Branch's King trilogy is to show anew the moral power of [nonviolent] philosophy."

-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Introduction	p. xi
Selma: The Last Revolution
Warning	p. 5
Scouts	p. 8
Dissent	p. 23
Boxed In	p. 32
Over the Bridge	p. 44
The Call	p. 58
Devil's Choice	p. 68
The Ghost of Lincoln	p. 83
Wallace and the Archbishop	p. 94
And We Shall Overcome	p. 109
Half-Inch Hailstones	p. 116
Neutralize Their Anxieties	p. 124
To Montgomery	p. 140
The Stakes of History	p. 155
Aftershocks	p. 171
Bearings in a Whirlwind	p. 194
High Tide
Ten Feet Tall	p. 205
Leaps of Faith	p. 229
Gulps of Freedom	p. 249
Fort Deposit	p. 275
Watts and Hayneville	p. 293
Fragile Alliance	p. 324
Identity	p. 337
Crossroads in Freedom and War
Enemy Politics	p. 365
Inside Out	p. 397
Refugees	p. 415
Break Points	p. 436
Panther Ladies	p. 455
Meredith March	p. 480
Chicago	p. 501
Valley Moments	p. 523
Backlash	p. 537
Passion
Spy Visions	p. 563
Riverside	p. 581
Splinters	p. 605
King's Choice	p. 629
New Year Trials	p. 657
Memphis	p. 683
Requiem	p. 723
Epilogue	p. 767
Acknowledgments	p. 773
Notes	p. 777
Bibliography	p. 981
Index	p. 993
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