Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
The 1965 Act would be passed after another titanic struggle, in which, with men and women (and children, many children) being beaten in Selma on their way to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, singing “We Shall Overcome” as they marched into tear gas and billy clubs and bullwhips, Lyndon Johnson went before Congress and said, “We Shall Overcome,” thereby ad
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Yet these many found ways—huge or humble, overtly or covertly, vocally or silently—to cash King’s check.
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
