Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Hardcover

Garrow, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0099302608 ISBN 13: 9780099302605

Publisher: Vintage, 1993

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 7th annual Robert Kennedy Book Award, this biography of Martin Luther King, first published in 1986, portrays the struggles and conflicts within the man who became the incarnation of the civil rights movement in America. It is based on more than 700 interviews with King's associates and with the Southern law men who worked against him, and on the author's access to King's personal papers and thousands of pages of newly-released FBI documents relating to the most radical uprising in American history.

About this title

About the Author:

David J. Garrow is Professor of Law & History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of four books, including Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, New York Times, and The American Prospect. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

From the Inside Flap:

e Pulitzer Prize. Based on more than 700 recorded conversations, including interviews with all of King's closest surviving associates, this is a powerful portrait of King and the movement for which he dedicated himself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0099302608
• ISBN 13: 9780099302605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 800