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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History Dust jackets (Binding) Authors' inscriptions (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Garrow, David J., 1953- Bearing the cross. New York : W. Morrow, ©1986 (OCoLC)561338231 |
Named Person: | Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David J Garrow |
ISBN: | 0688047947 9780688047948 0688166326 9780688166328 |
OCLC Number: | 13582103 |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1987. |
Description: | 800 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 -- The birth of SCLC, 1957-1959 -- SNCC, the Kennedys, and the freedom rides, 1960-1961 -- Albany and lessons for the future, 1961-1962 -- Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963 -- The Alabama Project, St. Augustine, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1963-1964 -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965 -- Chicago and the "War on slums," 1965-1966 -- The Meredith March, "Black Power," and the Chicago open-housing protests, 1966 -- Economic justice and Vietnam, 1966-1967 -- The poor people's campaign and Memphis, 1967-1968. |
Responsibility: | David J. Garrow. |
Abstract:
An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.
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