Bearing the Cross

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For the words of Jesus on which the title of the book is based, see Mark 8 § Instructions for followers.
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
AuthorDavid J. Garrow
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherWilliam Morrow & Company
Publication date
1986
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Biography;
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
ISBN9780688047948

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a 1986 book by David J. Garrow about Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Freedom Rides, The March on Washington and the American Civil Rights Movement. The content of this book is derived from more than 700 recorded conversations – with such close associates of King as Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and Ralph D. Abernathy, as well as with political opponents – and thousands of previously unreleased FBI documents.[1]

The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.[2]

Bearing the Cross was first published in hardback by William Morrow and Company, with a HarperCollins paperback in 2004.[3]

References

  1. ^ Brunet, Elena. "New Paperbacks: BEARING THE CROSS Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (Vintage Books: $10.95)". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  2. ^ Rogers, Michael. "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference".
  3. ^ "Bearing the Cross", at books.google.com.


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