Reading Parting the Waters Episode: 003 Chapter Four, The First Trombone
Bus Boycott Part 1!
Branch takes us down into Montgomery Alabama where King establishes himself as the pastor of Dexter Ave Church. Bus Boycott background, origins and start of it. Learn what MLK adopts from his dad to help his Church increase revenue, what character Branch describes as offsetting psychopaths a notch in humanity's balance sheet, who should get credit for initiating the Bus Boycott, and who is the greatest Lutheran of the 20th century. Your letters and much more in this richly packed episode.
Intro music by The Staples Singers “Freedom Highway 1965.