Parting the Waters

Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch brilliantly narrates the American civil rights movement in his historical account of volume one of Parting the Waters. Branched into two parts, the captivating first part generates an insightful portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. while touching upon the racial segregation that existed at the time and setting the stage for civil disobedience. The second part raises awareness on how President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, handled integration as well as their interactions with J. Edgar Hoover. This is the most masterfully woven narrative of history since the Civil War.