Bearing the Cross
1986 book by David J. Garrow / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
For the words of Jesus on which the title of the book is based, see Mark 8 § Instructions for followers.
Bearing the Cross was published by William Morrow and Company, with a HarperCollins paperback in 2004.[1]