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

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David J. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who is presently professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow, who earned his PhD from Duke University, is an acclaimed scholar of the United States' black freedom struggle and reproductive rights movement, as well as of the US Supreme Court. His definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was honored with the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the seventh-annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Garrow's other books are Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis, and Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. He also served as a senior adviser to Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning PBS documentary series on the civil rights movement.

Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
1. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
2. The Birth of SCLC, 1957-1959
3. SNCC, the Kennedys, and the Freedom Rides, 1960-1961
4. Albany and Lessons for the Future, 1961-1962
5. Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963
6. The Alabama Project, St. Augustine, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1963-1964
7. Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
8. Chicago and the "War on Slums," 1965-1966
9. The Meredith March, "Black Power," and the Chicago Open-Housing Protests, 1966
10. Economic Justice and Vietnam, 1966-1967
11. The Poor People's Campaign and Memphis, 1967-1968
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright Page.

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Subjects	African Americans -- Biography African Americans -- Civil rights Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- History United States -- Race relations Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Politics History Electronic books.
Publisher	[Place of publication not identified] :Open Road Media,2015 Open Road Media2015
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
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Description	1 online resource
ISBN	9781504011525 9781504011525
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