From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. had become the "moral leader" and icon of the civil rights movement. King had become a martyr to the movement and spoke at approximately two hundred civil rights activism events a year. Yet King was torn between being a martyr to his people and showing support for other organizations with opposing views. In Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, Taylor Branch illustrates the counter-narrative of Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggles to advance within the movement to the FBI, and the Kennedy administration's lack of involvement in rights civics, which blocked King's progress. as a successful black leader to prolong the unity of the movement. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s early roles in the civil rights movement were rarely involved in any type of protest. Instead, King frequently tried to contain the intolerance of most young African American activists who acted out their parents' frustrations. King often tried to meet the demands of many conflicting groups from the Kennedy administration....