David J. Garrow

18 books

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

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

David Garrow

800 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle by Darlene Clark Hine, Clayborne Carson, Vincent Harding, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill

The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle

Darlene Clark Hine, Clayborne Carson, Vincent Harding, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill

784 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative lighthearted slow-paced
The F.B.I. and Martin Luther King, Jr. by David J. Garrow

The F.B.I. and Martin Luther King, Jr.

David J. Garrow

320 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington by Dennis J. Hutchinson, John Frush Knox, David J. Garrow

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

Dennis J. Hutchinson, John Frush Knox, David J. Garrow

312 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective slow-paced
From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist by Sara Mitchell Parsons

From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist

Sara Mitchell Parsons

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography politics emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade by David J. Garrow

Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

David J. Garrow

1064 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow

190 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history memoir race emotional informative slow-paced
Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by David J. Garrow

Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

David J. Garrow

364 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 by Clayborne Carson, Carol Polsgrove, Bill Kovach, David J. Garrow

Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963

Clayborne Carson, Carol Polsgrove, Bill Kovach, David J. Garrow

996 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

David J. Garrow

1472 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics challenging reflective slow-paced