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Archive Home > 2007 > January > 13 > Author speaks of the legacy of MLK

Author speaks of the legacy of MLK

Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch addresses myths, miracles of civil rights movement

By Julie Johnson / The Bulletin
January 13, 2007

aylor Branch never saw Martin Luther King Jr. in person.

Though they shared the same hometown of Atlanta, Branch, now 60, was much younger. He was a child when King was supervising the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, and he was in high school when King famously dreamed from the steps of the....

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