Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Rumix Baade Okocha
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. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents and more than 700 interviews with King's closest friends and enemies.Garrow traces King's transformation from the young pastor of a modest church into the foremost spokesperson of the civil rights movement. The book's unifying theme is King's growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as his sense of mission deepened and matured into acceptance of a life that would end by demanding the ultimate sacrifice. This is a powerful portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.Read more
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Episodes (13)
Chapter 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956
Chapter 2: The Birth of SCLC, 1957–1959
Chapter 3: SNCC, the Kennedys, and the Freedom Rides, 1960–1961
Chapter 4: Albany and Lessons for the Future, 1961–1962
Chapter 5: Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963
Chapter 6: The Alabama Project, St. Augustine, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1963–1964
Chapter 7: Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
Chapter 8: Chicago and the “War on Slums,” 1965–1966
Chapter 9: The Meredith March, “Black Power,” and the Chicago Open-Housing Protests, 1966
Chapter 10: Economic Justice and Vietnam, 1966–1967