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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Bearing the Cross -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraph -- 1. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 -- 2. The Birth of SCLC, 1957-1959 -- 3. SNCC, the Kennedys, and the Freedom Rides, 1960-1961 -- 4. Albany and Lessons for the Future, 1961-1962 -- 5. Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963 -- 6. The Alabama Project, St. Augustine, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1963-1964 -- 7. Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965 -- 8. Chicago and the "War on Slums," 1965-1966

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to choose In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought to establish their rights to use contraceptives and choose to have an abortion. Liberty and Sexuality traces these political and legal struggles in the decades leading up to Roe v. Wade-including th

David J. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who is presently professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow, who earned his PhD from Duke University, is an acclaimed scholar of the United States' black freedom struggle and reproductive rights movement, as well as of the US Supreme Court. His definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was honored with the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the seventh-annual Robert

David J. Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who is presently professor of law and history and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow, who earned his PhD from Duke University, is an acclaimed scholar of the United States' black freedom struggle and reproductive rights movement, as well as of the US Supreme Court. His definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was honored with the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography and the seventh-annual Robert

The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize'winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government's massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.'s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of King's alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of King's personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image. Based on meticulous research into the agency's surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed King's movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoover's FBI while unmasking Hoover's personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole

Examines recent transformations affecting the US black community, with a specific focus on the shift away from electoral support & toward organizational mobilization. Recent years have evidenced a sharp decline in mainstream political support for the affirmative action & minority business enterprise programs that made significant contributions to the growth of the black middle & upper classes. Past policies emphasizing minority-sensitive legislative districting have faced increased political challenges, & recent district restructuring may lead to a decline in black membership in Congress for the first time in almost a century. These trends have accentuated a recent shift away from electoral politics in favor of organizational mobilization within the black community. This shift contains the possibility for the rejuvenation of organizations (eg, the National Assoc for the Advancement of Colored People) that have experienced recent declines in membership & support. It is concluded that parents & private organizations must take on increased responsibility as the number of black public officials declines. T. Sevier