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Taylor Branch - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Historian

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Author Taylor Branch to deliver MLK Jr. Lecture

Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his narrative history of the civil rights era, will deliver the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Branch will speak about "Myth and Miracles from the King Years." His presentation is free and open to the public and begins at 4:30 p.m. in Salomon Center for Teaching, De Ciccio Family Auditorium. The lecture can also be viewed live online. Branch will also take part in a discussion on "Martin Luther King Jr. in Berlin" on Friday, Jan. 31, at noon in Pembroke Hall.

Taylor Branch distills Pulitzer-winning trilogy for students

'The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement" consists of 18 watershed events in the battle to end racial discrimination

Taylor Branch, Prize-Winning Historian, to Teach MOOC on Civil-Rights Era

Taylor Branch (Photo by J. Brough Schamp) The author and historian Taylor Branch spent nearly 25 years exploring and writing about the civil-rights era, and the result was a popular trilogy of books, America in the King Years, one of which won a Pulitzer Prize. This semester Mr. Branch will share his knowledge of the period by teaching a course at the University of Baltimore and opening it up to outsiders on the Web as a massive open online course, or MOOC.

Books by Taylor Branch

The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement - Book by Taylor Branch

The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement” (2013)

The Clinton Tapes: Conversations with a President, 1993 - 2001 - Book by Taylor Branch

The Clinton Tapes: Conversations with a President, 1993 - 2001” (2010)

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 - Book by Taylor Branch

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68” (2007)

Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 - Book by Taylor Branch

Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65” (1999)

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Book by Taylor Branch

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63” (1988)

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