Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / David J. Garrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrow, David J., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

King, Martin Luther.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference--History.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Baptists--United States--Clergy--Biography.

Baptists.

History.

United States.

Clergy.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

800 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1988.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : W. Morrow, 1986.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [725]-772.

ISBN:

0394756231

OCLC:

15791404