Taylor Branch is a Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and historian best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. He returned to the Bob Sirott Show to talk to Bob about Dr. King’s time living in Chicago at 1550 S. Hamlin, and his attempt to show how American race issues weren’t solely a Southern problem.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s battle with racial tension in Chicago from Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian Taylor Branch
Dr. Martin Luther King speaks March 25, 1967 at the Chicago peace march. (AP Photo/Chick Harrity)
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