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Three meticulously researched worksincluding Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Crossspanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., and his mission to upend deeply entrenched prejudices in society, and enact legal change that would achieve equality for African Americans one hundred years after their emancipation from slavery.
Bearing the Cross traces Kings evolution from the young pastor who spearheaded the 195556 bus boycott in Montgomery to the inspirational leader of Americas civil rights movement, focusing on Kings crucial role at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Garrow captures Kings charisma, his moral obligation to lead a nonviolent crusade against racism and inequalityand the toll this calling took on his life.
Garrow delves deeper into one of the civil rights movements most decisive moments in Protest at Selma. These demonstrations led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that, along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, remains a key aspect of Kings legacy. Garrow analyzes Kings political strategy and understanding of how media coverageespecially reports of white violence against peaceful African American protestorselicited sympathy for the cause.
Kings fierce determination to overturn the status quo of racial relations antagonized FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. follows Hoovers personal obsession to destroy the civil rights leader. In an unprecedented abuse of governmental power, Hoover led one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history, desperately trying to mar Kings image.
As a collection, these utterly engrossing books are a key to understanding Kings inner life, his public persona, and his legacy, and are a testament to his impact in forcing America to confront intolerance and bigotry at a critical time in the nations history.

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MLK: An American Legacy

Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.

David J. Garrow

Contents

Bearing the Cross

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

David J. Garrow

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This is the cross

that we must bear

for the freedom of our people.

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING , J R .

October 26, 1960

Reidsville State Prison,

Tattnall County, Georgia

The cross we bear

precedes the crown we wear.

To be a Christian one must take up his cross,

with all of its difficulties and agonizing

and tension-packed content

and carry it until that very cross

leaves its marks upon us and redeems us

to that more excellent way which comes

only through suffering.

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING , J R .

January 17, 1963

National Conference on Religion & Race,

Chicago, Illinois

When I took up the cross,

I recognized its meaning.

The cross is something that you bear,

and ultimately that you die on.

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING , J R .

May 22, 1967

Penn Community Center,

Frogmore, South Carolina

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 19551956

Thursday had been busy and tiring for Mrs. Raymond A. Parks. Her job as a tailors assistant at the Montgomery Fair department store had left her neck and shoulder particularly sore, and when she left work at 5:30 P.M . that December 1, 1955, she went across the street to a drugstore in search of a heating pad. Mrs. Parks didnt find one, but she purchased a few other articles before recrossing the street to her usual bus stop on Court Square. The buses were especially crowded this cold, dark evening, and when she boarded one for her Cleveland Avenue route, only one row of seatsthe row immediately behind the first ten seats that always were reserved for whites onlyhad any vacancies. She took an aisle seat, with a black man on her right next to the window, and two black women in the parallel seat across the way.

As more passengers boarded at each of the two next stops, the blacks moved to the rear, where they stood, and the whites occupied their exclusive seats at the front of the bus. At the third stop, more passengers got on, and one, a white male, was left standing after the final front seat was taken. The bus driver, J. F. Blake, looked back and called out to Mrs. Parks and her three colleagues, All right you folks, I want those two seats. Montgomerys customary practice of racial preference demanded that all four blacks would have to stand in order to allow one white man to sit, since no black was allowed to sit parallel with a white. No one moved at first. Blake spoke out again: You all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats. At that, the two women across from Mrs. Parks rose and moved to the rear; the man beside her rose also, and she moved her legs to allow him out into the aisle. She remained silent, but shifted to the window side of the seat.

Blake could see that Mrs. Parks had not arisen. Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat. Are you going to stand up? At that, Rosa Lee McCauley Parks uttered her first word to him: No. Blake responded, If you dont stand up, Im going to have you arrested. Mrs. Parks told him to go right ahead, that she was not going to move. Blake said nothing more, but got off the bus and went to a phone. No one spoke to Mrs. Parks, and some passengers began leaving the bus, not wanting to be inconvenienced by the incident.

Mrs. Parks was neither frightened nor angry. I was thinking that the only way to let them know I felt I was being mistreated was to do just what I didresist the order, she later recalled. I had not thought about it and I had taken no previous resolution until it happened, and then I simply decided that I would not get up. I was tired, but I was usually tired at the end of the day, and I was not feeling well, but then there had been many days when I had not felt well. I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so. The moment had come, and she had had the courage to say no.

Blake returned from the phone, and stood silently in the front of the bus. After a few minutes, a police squad car pulled up, and two officers, F. B. Day and D. W. Mixon, got on the bus. Blake pointed to Mrs. Parks, said he needed the seat, and that the other ones stood up. The two policemen came toward her, and one, in Mrs. Parkss words, asked me if the driver hadnt asked me to stand. I said yes. He asked, Why didnt you stand up? I said I didnt think I should have to. I asked him, Why do you push us around? He said, I dont know, but the law is the law, and you are under arrest. So the moment he said I was under arrest, I stood up. One picked up my purse, one picked up my shopping bag, and we got off the bus. They escorted her to the patrol car, and returned to talk to Blake. The driver confirmed that he wanted to press charges under Montgomerys bus segregation ordinance, and the officers took Mrs. Parks first to police headquarters and then to the city jail. By then Mrs. Parks was tense, and her throat was uncommonly dry. She spied a water fountain, but was quickly told that she could not drink from itit was for whites only. Her processing complete, Mrs. Parks was allowed to call home and tell her family what had transpired.

Word of Mrs. Parkss arrest began to spread even before that phone call. One passenger on the bus told a friend of Mrs. Parkss about the event, and that friend, Mrs. Bertha Butler, immediately called the home of longtime black activist E. D. Nixon, a past president of Montgomerys National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter and the most outspoken figure in the black community. Nixon was not at home, but his wife, Arlet, was, and she phoned his small downtown office. Nixon was out at the moment, but when he returned a few moments later, he saw the message to call home. Whats up? he asked his wife. She told him of Mrs. Parkss arrest, but couldnt tell him what the charge was. Nixon hung up and immediately called the police station.

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