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

Summary

David J. Garrow chronicles Martin Luther King Jr. through the organization he led, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, tracing the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to his assassination in 1968. The book details the campaigns in Birmingham and Selma, the March on Washington, and the FBI surveillance that shadowed King. Garrow grounds the story in extensive interviews and documents, presenting King as a leader carrying enormous moral and personal weight.