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Pulitzer Prize-winning author will deliver Charter Lecture
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and civil rights historian, will deliver the Charter Lecture April 17 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The topic of his lecture is “Democracy in Crisis: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future.” The event is open free to the public.

Taylor Branch
Branch is the author of America in the King Years, a three-volume history of the civil rights movement. The first volume, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Book Critics Circle Award and the English-Speaking Union Book Award. The second volume, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965, won the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, the Imus Book Award and the Sidney Hillman Book Award. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, the conclusion of the three-volume history, was published in February to critical acclaim. It chronicles King at the height of his moral power and documents why his steadfast belief in freedom and nonviolence made him a defining figure in American history.

Branch has written for a wide variety of publications including The Washington Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic. In the 1990s, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship as well as the National Humanities Medal. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The Charter Lecture Series, established in 1988, was named to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 Charter that founded the University of Georgia as the first chartered state university in the United States. A committee of senior faculty members selects speakers for the series.
—Wendy Jones
 


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