King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet.
"Taylor Branch" is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy — collectively called America in the King Years — was released in January 2006, and a selected summary of the trilogy, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was released in 2013.
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When the Birmingham movement happened, it just stunned me, ... I felt a tiny breath of something very powerful. It changed the whole direction of my life's interest.
This era liberated everyone, if you look at the long span of history, beginning with white southerners. Until black people struggled for equal rights, white women couldn't serve on juries. Almost 30 states restricted service. That's so foreign to us today.
We just get after 'em. It's the biggest game for both of us.
He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him.
I don't really mind this although sometimes I get afraid of Willy. I get afraid of his temper. You never know what he's going to do.
John is trying to talk [the family] into giving up control.
There's a tremendous tide of freedom that came out of the civil rights movement.
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