David Garrow

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David J. Garrow (born 1953) is an American historian and author of the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is also the author of Liberty and Sexuality, a history of the legal struggles over reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Garrow writes frequently on the history of the United States Supreme Court and regularly contributes articles to non-academic publications such as The New York Times, The Nation, The Financial Times, and The New Republic. He graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975 and is a Fellow at Cambridge University.

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Protest at Selma (Yale University Press, 1978)
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Norton, 1981)
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Morrow, 1986; HarperCollins paperback, 2004)
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (Macmillan, 1994; updated paperback edition, University of California Press, 1998)