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





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