The Book Prize Index

Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow

An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyActivist BiographyAmerican Civil WarLiterature & Writers

Award History

2 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in Biography or AutobiographyMajor1987WinnerSecondary source
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award1987WinnerOfficial source
Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor1987FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Martin Luther King, Jr.92%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.