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Taylor Branch on the History and Legacy of Racial Politics in the US

For more on this event, visit: http://bit.ly/1grJ4fF For a full-length video of this event, visit: http://bit.ly/1cPdZPO For more on the Berkley Center, visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu November 18, 2013 | As part of Georgetown's Faith and Culture Lecture Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch discussed his acclaimed trilogy of books on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his most recent work The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster, 2013). Branch's latest book, drawn from the trilogy, highlights eighteen crucial moments from the civil rights movement. Paul Elie, Berkley Center senior fellow and author of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", led the conversation. This event was sponsored by the Georgetown University Office of the President. Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his landmark trilogy on the civil rights era, America in the King Years. He has returned to civil rights history in his latest book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013). His 2009 memoir, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, chronicles an unprecedented eight-year project to gather a sitting president's comprehensive oral history secretly on tape. His cover story for the October 2011 issue of The Atlantic, "The Shame of College Sports," touched off continuing national debate. Taylor began his career as a magazine journalist for The Washington Monthly in 1970.