Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63Classic · History, Nonfiction, Biography
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
1988 · 1062 pages · Nonfiction
74
Classic
★ 4.36 on Goodreads · 10K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 27 hours to read · about 8 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1989) and 1 more win. 4.36★ from 10K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
74Must-Read Score
- Readers94 out of 100 · counts 40%+43
- Critics88 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+31
- Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #11 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #13 of the 154 history books we rank
- #13 of the 520 classics we rank
- #55 of the 1,405 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1989)
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (1988)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1989)
Reads as
True story
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