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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Paperback - 1999

by David J. Garrow


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Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 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 theme is King's growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as his sense of mission deepened, matured, and was transmuted by sometimes-reluctant degrees into acceptance of a life and a role that would end by demanding the ultimate in self-sacrifice. This is a powerful portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.

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  • Title Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • Author David J. Garrow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition -
  • Pages 800
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 6, 1999
  • ISBN 9780688166328 / 0688166326
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.56 x 2.17 in (20.83 x 14.12 x 5.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86008594
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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