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There are now many good books on the civil rights movement, but this may well be the best. It’s a cliché to say that a book is hard to put down, but this one really is. I finished and have already started on the next volume, Pillar of Fire. It’s long, highly detailed, but the writing is superb. And Taylor Branch rarely inserts his personal views—he lets the facts speak for themselves.In 1962, after having to eventually do what he hoped to avoid and sending thousands of troops to enroll one Black, James Meredith, in "Ole Miss": "'It makes me wonder,' Kennedy said privately to Sorensen, 'whether everything I learned [in Harvard] about the evils of Reconstruction was really true.'"W.E.B. Du Bois had published his groundbreaking work Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 in 1935, but the Dunning school was still almost an official version of US history, especially in schools for the ruling class. (Ignore the Stalinist-influenced nonsense about "the dictatorship of the black proletariat"; this was a bourgeois-democratic revolution).Despite racism in the labor movement, Black workers had been part of the formation of the big industrial unions (see Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55), and there was a significant fight against racism in the armed forces during World War II (see Fighting Racism in World War II). Some of that sentiment managed to survive through the years of the witch hunt.There were hundreds of thousands of people involved in the civil rights movement in one way or another. It destroyed Jim Crow segregation, and forever changed this country, although other forms of institutional racism will take a revolution to be wiped out. Branch discusses many of the leaders of this movement. Martin Luther King wasn’t my favorite, but he clearly was the central one. To me, civil disobedience is just a tactic, not a principle. The non-violent approach frequently limited the number of people who would participate. Unfortunately, King also had big illusions in John F. Kennedy. The Democratic Party then included most Blacks for the first time, but it also still included most segregationists. On the other hand, Malcolm X in 1964 said “Any Negro who registers as a Democrat or a Republican is a traitor to his own people.†(See By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches and Writings) (Malcolm X speeches & writings)).Meeting with Kennedy was not wrong, but letting Kennedy dictate who King could associate with (because of FBI assertions of “Communist infiltrationâ€) was something else. King tried to maneuver around this, but it’s not easy fooling the rulers.Kennedy, and Johnson were forced to enact civil rights legislation, not only because of the mass movement developing in this country, but because of the colonial revolution and the Cold War. The Soviet Union also oppressed minority nationalities, but Cuba was different. The US government wanted to avoid pictures of Blacks being beaten showing on TV and newspapers all over the world. They wanted to steer the civil rights movement toward voting rights, but did they really think that would be any less bloody! It obviously wasn’t.While Kennedy was willing to take the world to the brink of nuclear disaster to try to overthrow the revolutionary government of Cuba (which gave high priority to fighting racism), Malcolm X, in 1960, when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam, met with Fidel Castro in New York (see To Speak the Truth: Why Washington's 'Cold War' Against Cuba Doesn't End, and Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power). In 1964, when Che Guevara was in New York to speak at the United Nations, Che agreed to speak at a meeting sponsored by Malcolm’s Organization of Afro-American Unity. Security concerns led to his cancelling, but he sent greetings which Malcolm X read (see Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements). Branch doesn’t mention all this, but he does mention “rallies of support [for the struggle in Birmingham] as far away as Birmingham, England, and Havana, Cuba….â€The civil rights movement helped inspire the next mass movement, against the Vietnam War, which King and others came to join (see Out Now: A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War). And both these movements helped inspire the fight of women for equal rights.For those who think that the election of Trump is because white workers who had twice voted for Obama suddenly became racist, I recommend The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class Record (Why Washington fears working people?). The working class has not become more racist; it is having second thoughts about the Democrats because of the world capitalist economic and social crisis. There were, I believe 201 counties where people who had twice voted for Obama voted for Trump. The fact that their lifespan is 20 years less than the US average seems far more relevant than their attitude toward Black people, which probably hasn’t changed.Had the Democrats run Bernie Sanders, he would likely have won. He also has no answers, but unlike Hillary Clinton, he didn’t pretend there were no problems.
Taylor Branch, in this first volume of his Civil Rights era chronicle, admirably fulfills a writer's twin duties of telling a compelling story while managing a vast amount of historical material. Covering the years 1954 to 1963, Branch takes the reader from movement's birth in the black Baptist churches of the South through the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, concluding with JFK's death and its aftermath. Every participant, man, woman, or child, famous or obscure, has his story told with a veteran reporter's eye for the truth. Branch has a way with words, as we can appreciate on virtually every page. Here are a couple of samples. The first discusses the FBI's extensive wiretapping of King and his associates:"That an intelligence agency in the belief that King was an enemy of freedom, ignorant of the reality that King had just set in motion the greatest firestorm of domestic liberty in a hundred years, was one of the saddest ironies of American history." (p 692)The other sample illustrates Branch's use of ironic humor:"Walker's [an organizer of the March on Washington] presentation was at once breathtaking and quixotic. It envisioned a precisely organized march into history by an organization that had taken four years to find a mimeograph machine." (p 690)Martin Luther King, Jr. and his movement were rooted in the church, as the titles of the three series' volumes (Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, At Canaan's Edge) which recall the Biblical journey of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land, make clear. And, as was true in the Bible, the heroes were also all-too-fallible human beings, petty and sinful, but ultimately victorious.Events today have their roots in the past. If you'd like to understand where we are in Civil Rights, this book genuinely earns its five stars. I look forward to reading the remaining two volumes.
At the end of 922 pages of text in Parting the Waters I felt stunned at the scope and beauty of Branch's story of the early King years; emboldened by such a moving, well-told story, shocked and horrified at details I had never known of the horrors the Freedom Riders and King suffered. This book is both haunting and inspiring. Most importantly, I wished for 922 pages more of Branch's story to read. Thankfully, it is the first in a trilogy so there is more to read. No one who cares about or wants to learn more about the Civil Rights movement can afford to miss this book.
"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963" is Taylor Branch's magnificent first volume of a three-volume biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. This masterful book traces the early life of America's greatest advocate of civil rights and non-violence from his birth, childhood, and young adulthood; through the critical decade of the 1950s, when the struggle for African American rights reached its peak; to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. King is presented as a flawed but noble hero who battled not only the segregationist establishment of the Deep South, but the federal government as well. (Some very surprising villains will be found in these pages.) A brilliant biography that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, "Parting the Waters" is also a towering history of one of the most disturbing periods of the twentieth century. Most highly recommended.
Repeatedly, in fact incessantly while reading Parting the Waters what most impressed itself on me was how impossible we make it for ourselves to maintain any moral consistency. Branch does a peerless job of portraying the dozens of players on all sides of the Civil Rights Movement as trapped in a relentless omnidimensional chess game. The book is at once inspiring and enervating and left me with the overall impression that politics is as inescapable as it is stupid and uninspiring.
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