1963 March on Washington
The American Enterprise Institute hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. Historian Taylor B…
150 viewsThe American Enterprise Institute hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. Historian Taylor B…
150 viewsHistorian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, spoke about the li…
1,762 viewsTaylor Branch talked about the challenges of researching and writing biographies. His trilogy on the civil rights era chronicled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and work during that period.
907 viewsPanelists talked about the relationship between President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. The panel, “LBJ and MLK: Fulfilling a Promise, Realizing a Dream,” took place at a Civ…
1,722 viewsNCAA President Mark Emmert, two former college football players, author and historian Taylor Branch, and other witnesses testified on college athletes and academics. The hearing was held in …
26,217 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, in which he presents his thoughts on key moments in the Civil Rights Movement. He spoke a…
1,071 viewsEleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) talked with Taylor Branch, author of The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, about key moments in the civil rights movement. They also dis…
193 viewsTaylor Branch, author of the multi-volume, America in the King Years, presented his thoughts on key moments in the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Branch spoke at the Atlanta History Center.
559 viewsPanelists talked about racial progress since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago and what disparities remained at the start of President Obama’s second term. He used t…
975 viewsMr. Branch talked about his new book, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, published by Simon and Schuster. This is the second in a three-volume work on the civil rights moveme…
1,577 viewsPanelists debated whether the evolving definition of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) concept of “student athlete” and its impact on higher education. Among the issues t…
501 viewsThe J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards were given at Columbia University in New York City. Eliza Griswold received the Lukas Book Award for The Tenth Parallel. Isabel Wilkerson received t…
512 viewsA panel discussion was held at the release of annotated transcripts of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House tapes of June 1 - July 4, 1964. In those 34 days he was occupied by America’s…
2,800 viewsMr. Branch talked about his biography, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, published by Simon and Schuster. This is the third volume of Branch’s King Years trilogy, and it …
368 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President(Simon & Schuster; September 29, 2009). In his book Taylor Branch recalls his eight years of priva…
350 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Simon & Schuster; September 29, 2009). In his book Taylor Branch recalls his eight years of priva…
314 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his new book, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Simon & Schuster; September 29, 2009), which recounts his meetings with President Clinton du…
209 viewsTheodore Sorensen, Special Counsel to President Kennedy; Harris Wofford, President Kennedy’s chairman for the Subcabinet Group on Civil Rights; Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author o…
746 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his life, his writing, and his interest in telling the story of the civil rights movement through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. He responded to t…
1,399 viewsTaylor Branch talked about his 26 year project, America in the King Years. The trilogy of books includes Parting the Waters, Pillor of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge, published by Simon and Schu…
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