Document Type
Article
Abstract
Professor Henry W. McGee, Jr. reviews Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, By David J. Garrow. Bearing the Cross depicts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while neither a lawyer nor a judge, belonged in the pantheon of American constitutional giants. From the Gethsemane of an Alabama jail, Dr. King carried the cross of freedom to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and ultimately to his own crucifixion on the balcony of a Memphis motel. The story of how a black Baptist minister caused the Constitution to be applied to all Americans is one of the great epics of world history, and is vividly captured in Bearing the Cross.
Recommended Citation
Henry McGee,
The Dream That Will Not Die: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Continuing American Revolution, 21 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 453
(1998).
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/513