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BOOK: Parting the Waters (First volume in Taylor Branch‘s trilogy MLK bio/Civil Rights Movement history—absolutely masterful, the books are all huge but well worth the effort)
AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett
MOVIE: Party Girl (bonus P points = starring Parker Posey! 💃🏻)
FOOD: 🥔 (That‘s a potato........not the most appetizing looking emoji 😝)
#manicmonday #letterP

#24in48 #sharetheshame This Taylor Branch trilogy is the most neglected on my shelf. Since this year is the anniversary of a pivotal year in the #CivilRightMovement it might be a great time to read them. #americainthekingyears #partingthewaters #pillaroffire #atcanaansedge #MLK50

I finished the PBS doc Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Many people commemorate this holiday with a day of service. If you can't get out to serve, educate yourself - read a book or watch a doc about the #CivilRightsMovement. I highly recommend this doc and this book! #MLKDay

#todayinsj MLK Jr leads his first anti war March in Chicago, 1967

#riotgrams #blackhistory - a little peek of what's on 1 of my shelves. I've been meaning to read the Taylor Branch books for years - America in the King Years. Have you read them?
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#browngirldreaming #jacquelinewoodson #thecolorofwater #jamesmcbride #walkingwiththewind #johnlewis #partingthewaters #pillaroffire #atcanaansedge #americainthekingyears #taylorbranch #caneriver #lalitatademy #thehouseatsugarbeach #helenecooper #citizen #claudiarankine

#inspiredbymlkjr #readjanuary These expansive and excellent volumes by Taylor Branch have been some of the most informative and enlightening reading I have ever experienced. Fair warning, it's a mighty endeavor to take on these books and it took me the better part of a year but I am so grateful to have made it through and am so inspired by the legacy of all civil rights workers of the time.

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Loved this book--a reminder that with crazy bravery and insane vision even the most horrifying situations can be changed. Martin Luther King Jr was a complex figure and this book looks deeply in to his flaws and doesn't discount the work of many many others in changing the normal and legal discriminatory American landscape. We aren't done--not nearly--but change can happen. The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice--MLK