David Jeffries Garrow was born on May 11,1953 and is an American author and historian.
10 Facts About David Garrow
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David Garrow wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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David Garrow was born May 11,1953 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son of Barbara and Walter David Garrow.
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In 1987, David Garrow was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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David Garrow writes frequently on 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.
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From 2005 to 2011, David Garrow was a senior research fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge.
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In 2019, David Garrow read Federal Bureau of Investigation files about Martin Luther King Jr.
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David Garrow wrote an article about King, in part based on his interpretation of the FBI files, which he submitted to The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Guardian, all of which rejected it.
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David Garrow said that he was reassessing his view of King.
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Peter Ling of the University of Nottingham said that David 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.