David J. Garrow

21 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 • paperback • 2004

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

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

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

784 pages • 1991

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 • 1981

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

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

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

312 pages • 2002

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 • paperback

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 • 1994

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 David J. Garrow, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

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

David J. Garrow, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

190 pages • 1987

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 • 1978

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

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

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

996 pages • 2003

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 • 2017

nonfiction biography history politics challenging reflective slow-paced