David J. Garrow

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

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 7th annual Robert Kennedy Book Award, this biography of Martin Luther King, first published in 1986, portrays the struggles and conflicts within the man who became the incarnation of the civil rights movement in America. It is based on more than 700 interviews with Kings associates and with the Southern law men who worked against him, and on the authors access to Kings personal papers and thousands of pages of newly-released FBI documents relating to the most radical uprising in American history.

Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Federal voting rights legislation and the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965. Emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr., as leader of SCLC.