Bearing the cross
Subtitle: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
By: David J. Garrow.
Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed.
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- History.; African Americans -- Biography.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.; Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Publisher's description: 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 seven hundred 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [725]-772) and index.
Originally published: New York : Quill, c1999.