{"id":1801,"date":"2012-01-16T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T21:28:28","slug":"parting-the-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/01\/16\/parting-the-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Parting the Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past year our country and world have seen an enormous surge in protest energy. From Zucotti Park to Tahrir Square, people have taken to the streets, demanding change. These movements seem viral as they achieve critical mass. But a movement can\u2019t be built on foot soldiers and zeal alone. It takes organization, politicking, and timing. It takes work.<\/p>\n<p>A book I recommend to you all this Martin Luther King Day is Taylor Branch\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorbranch.com\/king-era-trilogy\/parting-the-waters\/\">Parting the Waters: America in the King Years<\/a>. <\/em>At over 1000 pages, it\u2019s something of a behemoth. But <em>Parting the Waters <\/em>reads easily as Branch recreates, in extraordinary detail, the development of the civil rights movement and its storied leaders. We learn much about Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s education, life and choices. And learn that the success of the civil rights movement depended not just on Dr. King\u2019s vision, but also on the grassroots organizing by thousands of others.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fantastic book that chronicles an extraordinary moment in our country\u2019s history\u2014when organization yielded real change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past year our country and world have seen an enormous surge in protest [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}