1. King's Swift Messengers.
- Author
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Wiener, Jon
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BOOKS , *CIVIL rights movements , *MURDER , *MUSLIMS - Abstract
This article presents information about the book "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65," by Taylor Branch. The book opens with Malcolm X, arriving in Los Angeles, California, in 1962 after local African American Muslims were shot in a police attack. The violence employed by Southern states to fight the civil rights movement has seldom been portrayed with such power. The murder of Medgar Evers, the Birmingham church bombing that killed four girls and the Mississippi Summer killings are here in all their horror.
- Published
- 1998