num_pages: 626
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews, access to King’s personal papers, and thousands of FBI documents, Bearing the Cross traces King’s metamorphosis from a young, earnest pastor into the foremost spokesperson of the black freedom struggle. At the book’s heart is King’s growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as he gradually accepts a life that will demand the ultimate in self-sacrifice. This is a towering portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.
language: English
title: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
titlecomplete: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
characters: Martin Luther King Jr.
genres: Christianity, Politics, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Religion, African American, History, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2168
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks