Taylor Branch
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Biography
Taylor Branch 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.
"The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government."
"There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States."