Person
David J. Garrow
Historian of King, the SCLC, and the FBI's surveillance campaign against the movement.
Why this matters
Garrow thickens leadership under watch—moral authority contending with state suspicion.
Works2 sources
book
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986.
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article
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis
Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.
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