David Garrow
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David Garrow
This is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than 700 interviews with all of King’s surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author’s access to King’s personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, this is a towering portrait of a man’s metamorphosis into a legend.
Garrow traces King’s transformation from a young, earnest pastor of a modest church into the foremost spokesperson of the black freedom struggle. The book’s central unifying…
