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| Author | David J. Garrow |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | William Morrow & Company |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography; Robert F. Kennedy Book Award |
| ISBN | 9780688047948 |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a 1986 book byDavid J. Garrow aboutMartin Luther King Jr., theSouthern Christian Leadership Conference, the Freedom Rides,The March on Washington and theAmerican Civil Rights Movement. The content of this book is derived from more than 700 recorded conversations – with such close associates of King asCoretta Scott King,Andrew Young, andRalph D. Abernathy, as well as with political opponents – and thousands of previously unreleased FBI documents.[1]
The book won the 1987Pulitzer Prize for Biography and theRobert F. Kennedy Book Award.[2]
Bearing the Cross was first published in hardback byWilliam Morrow and Company, with aHarperCollins paperback in 2004.[3]
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