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David J. Garrow
David J. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian who is presently professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law....view moreDavid J. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian who is presently professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow, who earned his PhD from Duke University, is an acclaimed scholar of the United States’ black freedom struggle and reproductive rights movement, as well as of the US Supreme Court. His definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was honored with the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the seventh-annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Garrow’s other books are Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From “Solo” to Memphis, and Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. He also served as a senior adviser to Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning PBS documentary series on the civil rights movement.view less
Books by David J. Garrow
MLK: An American Legacy: Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings