1986 book by David J. Garrow
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a 1986 book by David J. Garrow about Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the American Civil Rights Movement. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Bearing the Cross was published by William Morrow and Company, with a HarperCollins paperback in 2004.[1]
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- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- National Historical Park
- King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Big Six
- African American founding fathers of the United States
- Authorship issues
- FBI–King suicide letter
- Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
- Season for Nonviolence
- U.S. Capitol Rotunda sculpture
- Oval Office bust
- Homage to King sculpture, Atlanta
- Hope Moving Forward statue, Atlanta
- Safe House Black History Museum
- Statues of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Compton)
- Landmark for Peace Memorial, Indianapolis
- The Dream sculpture, Portland, Oregon
- Kennedy–King College
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose
- Paris park
- Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.
- King County, Washington
- Eponymous streets
- America in the King Years
- Civil rights movement in popular culture
- Lee–Jackson–King Day
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