Garrow, David J.

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GARROW, David J.

GARROW, David J. American, b. 1953. Genres: Civil liberties/Human rights, Politics/Government, Race relations. Career: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, visiting member, 1979-80; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, assistant professor of political science, 1980-84; Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, DC, visiting fellow, 1984; City University of New York, College and the Graduate Center, associate professor, 1984-87, professor of political science, 1987-91; Cooper Union, visiting distinguished professor of history, 1992-93; College of William and Mary, James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History, 1994-95; American University, distinguished historian in residence, 1995-96; Emory University School of Law, presidential distinguished professor, 1997-. Publications: Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 1978; The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis, 1981, rev. ed., 2002; Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1986; (ed.) The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of JoAnn Gibson Robinson, 1987; (co-ed.) Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader, 1987, rev. ed., 1991; Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade, 1994, rev. ed., 1988; (coed.) The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington, 2002. Address: Emory University School of Law, 1301 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322-2770, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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