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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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Taylor Branch | |
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 Branch in 2009 | |
| Born | January 14, 1947 |
| Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Princeton University (MPA) |
| Spouse | Christina Macy |
| Children | 2 |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Notable work | America in the King Years |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellowship National Humanities Medal Pulitzer Prize for History |
Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.
Branch graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1964. From there, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship.[1] He graduated in 1968 and went on to earn an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1970.
Branch served as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1973; he was Washington editor of Harper's from 1973 to 1976; and he was Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977. He also has written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly.
In 1972, Branch worked for the Texas campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. Branch shared an apartment in Austin with Bill Clinton, and the two developed a friendship that continues today. He also worked with Hillary Rodham, Bill's then-girlfriend and Yale Law School classmate, and later Clinton's wife.
Branch's book on former president Bill Clinton, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President, was written from many tape-recorded interviews and conversations between the two, most of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and which were not disclosed publicly until 2007.[2]
Branch was a lecturer in politics and history at Goucher College from 1998 to 2000.[citation needed] Branch has also taught at the University of Baltimore.
Taylor Branch received a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant") in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal in 1999. In 2008, he received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award,[3] presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.[4]
In 2013, he co-produced Schooled: The Price of College Sports based on his 2011 book The Cartel.[citation needed]
in 2015, he received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization, for his contributions to the art and craft of biography.[5]
A group of Black Hebrew Israelites described as a cult in The New York Times were systematically denied Israeli citizenship over several decades. In 1981, a group of American civil rights activists led by Bayard Rustin investigated and concluded that racism was likely not the cause of the Black Hebrews' treatment.[6] In 1992, Branch opined that the Black Hebrew Israelites' denial of citizenship under the Israeli law of return was because of alleged anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews.[7] In 1998, Branch was criticized by Seth Forman, who said Branch's claims seemed to be baseless, particularly in light of Israel's airlift of thousands of black Ethiopian Jews in the early 1990s.[8]
Branch lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, Christina Macy, and their two children, Macy (born 1980) and Franklin (born 1983).
The America in the King Years trilogy consists of:
Parting the Waters won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1989, National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1988, English-Speaking Union Book Award in 1989, the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize in 1989, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1989.
Pillar of Fire won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award in 1999, the Imus Book Award in 1999, and the Hillman Prize in 1998[11] At Canaan's Edge won the Heartland Prize for nonfiction from the Chicago Tribune in 2006.[12]
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Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.
Taylor Branch is a stream in St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Wolf Creek. A variant name was "Taylor Creek". Taylor Branch has the name of George Taylor, a pioneer settler.
Taylor Branch is a 2.14 mi (3.44 km) long 2nd order tributary to the Leipsic River in Kent County, Delaware.
Becky Taylor Branch is a 2.35 mi (3.78 km) long first-order tributary to Marshyhope Creek in Dorchester County, Maryland.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
