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David Garrow is an American historian and author whose work includes political biography, civil rights history, and the history of legal conflicts over abortion and reproductive rights. His 1986 book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference examines King, the organization, and the wider movement, and won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book is used by readers studying Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the United States civil rights era.
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What is David Garrow's Bearing the Cross about?
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a political biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and a history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, commonly called the SCLC.
What award did Bearing the Cross receive?
David Garrow's Bearing the Cross won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book is especially known for combining King's personal biography with the organizational history of the SCLC.
How does David Garrow's work connect civil rights history and political biography?
Garrow studies Martin Luther King Jr. as both an individual leader and the central figure in a major movement organization. His approach places speeches, campaigns, internal disputes, and political strategy in the same narrative.
What other controversial subject has David Garrow written about?
Garrow has also written about abortion and reproductive rights, including the legal and political conflicts surrounding them. His work therefore extends from the civil rights movement to major disputes in American constitutional history.
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