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

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]