David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American author and historian . He wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography . He also wrote Liberty and Sexuality (1994), a history of the legal struggles over abortion and reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), and other works.
13-1256: [REDACTED] Look up garrow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Garrow may refer to: Garrows are a group of people from India Garrow ( Inheritance Cycle ) , is a minor character from the fantasy series The Inheritance Cycle Garrow, Perth and Kinross , a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland Surname [ edit ] Alex Garrow (1923–1966), 20th-century Scottish politician Brian Garrow (born 1969), American tennis player David Garrow (born 1953), American historian Donald Garrow (1918–2001), British alpine skier Edward Garrow (1815–1896), English cricketer and clergyman Ian Garrow (1908–1976), British army officer James Mitchell Ellis Garrow (1865–1935), New Zealand lawyer and university professor James Thompson Garrow (1843–1916), Ontario lawyer John Garrow (1929–2016), British nutritionist Mark Garrow (1955–2007), American priest Nathaniel Garrow (1780–1841), 19th-century American politician Robert Garrow (1936–1978), American spree killer William Garrow (1760–1840), English lawyer of
26-730: A handwritten note addended to a typed report is considered poor scholarship by several authorities. Peter Ling of the University of Nottingham pointed out that Garrow was excessively credulous, if not naive, in accepting the accuracy of FBI reports during a period when the FBI was undertaking a massive operation to attempt to discredit King as part of its COINTELPRO activities. Garrow had earlier referred to Ling's work on King, widely considered authoritative, as "thoughtful, perceptive, and thoroughly well-informed". Experts in 20th-century American history, including Jeanne Theoharis , Barbara Ransby of
39-591: A sexual assault by another minister. Garrow said he found it credible. King specialists and COINTELPRO historians described it as deeply irresponsible and excessively credulous in accepting the claim by an organization given a remit to destroy King and his reputation. Garrow was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts , the son of Barbara (Fassett) and Walter Garrow. He graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1975 before receiving his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1981. Garrow writes frequently on
52-821: A village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland Surname [ edit ] Alex Garrow (1923–1966), 20th-century Scottish politician Brian Garrow (born 1969), American tennis player David Garrow (born 1953), American historian Donald Garrow (1918–2001), British alpine skier Edward Garrow (1815–1896), English cricketer and clergyman Ian Garrow (1908–1976), British army officer James Mitchell Ellis Garrow (1865–1935), New Zealand lawyer and university professor James Thompson Garrow (1843–1916), Ontario lawyer John Garrow (1929–2016), British nutritionist Mark Garrow (1955–2007), American priest Nathaniel Garrow (1780–1841), 19th-century American politician Robert Garrow (1936–1978), American spree killer William Garrow (1760–1840), English lawyer of
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78-533: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages David Garrow Professional historians and scholars in other fields have criticized Garrow's later work on Martin Luther King Jr . In 2019 Garrow authored an article for the magazine Standpoint in which he wrote he had seen a Federal Bureau of Investigation file with a handwritten note on it claiming King had witnessed, failed to prevent, and encouraged
91-722: The Emory University School of Law (Presidential Distinguished Professor; 1997–2005). From 2005 to 2011, Garrow was a senior research fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge . From 2011 until 2018, he served as Professor of Law and History and John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law . In 1987, Garrow was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America . In 2019, Garrow read Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files about Martin Luther King Jr. Garrow wrote an article about King, in part based on his interpretation of
104-478: The University of Illinois Chicago , N. D. B. Connolly of Johns Hopkins University and Glenda Gilmore of Yale University have expressed reservations about Garrow's scholarship. Theoharis commented "Most scholars I know would penalize graduate students for doing this." It is not the first time the care and rigor of Garrow's work has been called into serious question. The long-time civil rights activist Edith Lee-Payne suggested Garrow may have published his work in
117-463: The FBI files, which he submitted to The Atlantic , The Washington Post , The New York Times and The Guardian , all of which rejected it. The article was published in the now-defunct British conservative magazine Standpoint . Garrow wrote that the files suggest King may have encouraged and failed to prevent sexual violence. He said that he was reassessing his view of King. Many authors called Garrow's claim unreliable. Garrow's reliance on
130-694: The history of the United States Supreme Court and the history of the Civil Rights Movement , and regularly contributes articles on these subjects to non-academic publications including The New York Times , The Nation , Financial Times , and The New Republic . Garrow served as a senior adviser for Eyes on the Prize , the award-winning PBS television history of the Civil Rights Movement covering
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169-791: The years 1954–1965. He has taught at Duke University (Instructor of History; 1978–1979), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Assistant Professor of History; 1980–1984), the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center (Associate and full Professor of History; 1984–1991), Cooper Union (Visiting Distinguished Professor of History; 1992–1993), the College of William & Mary (James Pinckney Harrison Visiting Professor of History; 1994–1995), American University (Distinguished Historian in Residence; 1995–1996) and
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