Taylor Branch
Birthday: 1947-01-14
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography: Taylor Branch is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, best known for his series on Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights era including Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, (National Book Award) Pillars of Fire and At Canaan’s Edge. He has also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.
Movies
Out of Luck
An in depth look at the full effect of State Lotteries on the players and the people around them....
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
An inspiring portrait of the life and legacy of Jewish theologian and philosopher, Rabbi Abraham Jos...
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Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying ...
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4 Little Girls
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young gi...
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Citizen King
Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther...
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV...
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