Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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- 800 páginas
- 28 horas de lectura
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In this 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, David J. Garrow, through extensive interviews, and access to F.B.I. transcripts, delves deeply into both Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership role and his private life. He attributes King's moral and physical courage to his religious faith: King believed that he had literally been called to do the Lord's work. But from 1965, when the F.B.I. taped King in sexual encounters and sent the tape to S.C.L.L. headquarters, his associates noted a "spiritual depression", even a "death wish." Fear that exposure would ruin his public work dogged him until his assassination in 1968. While documenting the F.B.I.'s dirty tricks, Garrow never loses sight of King's achievement and vision, nor of the poignancy of King's belief that "the cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."
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Bearing the Cross, David J. Garrow
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- 1988
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- Título
- Bearing the Cross
- Subtítulo
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- David J. Garrow
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Publicado en
- 1988
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 800
- ISBN10
- 0394756231
- ISBN13
- 9780394756233
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Política, EE.UU., Siglo XX, Literatura especializada, Historia de EE. UU., Raza, Racismo, Literatura afroamericana, Derechos Humanos, Filósofos, Premio Pulitzer
- Descripción
- In this 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, David J. Garrow, through extensive interviews, and access to F.B.I. transcripts, delves deeply into both Dr. Martin Luther King's leadership role and his private life. He attributes King's moral and physical courage to his religious faith: King believed that he had literally been called to do the Lord's work. But from 1965, when the F.B.I. taped King in sexual encounters and sent the tape to S.C.L.L. headquarters, his associates noted a "spiritual depression", even a "death wish." Fear that exposure would ruin his public work dogged him until his assassination in 1968. While documenting the F.B.I.'s dirty tricks, Garrow never loses sight of King's achievement and vision, nor of the poignancy of King's belief that "the cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."