Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (Hardcover)
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| Author: Michael Honey |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-10: 0393043398
ISBN-13: 9780393043396
Buy.com Sku: 202891200
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9.5H x 6.5L x 2T
Pages:
619
Age Range:
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| The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.''s last crusade. |
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When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, he was there to support striking city sanitation workers and to march for economic justice as part of his Poor People's Campaign. He encountered a city on the brink, with a volatile mix of hard-line viewpoints and constituencies contesting for power. Labor historian Michael Honey sorts out the issues, individuals, and groups, placing all within both local and national contexts, while keeping King and his work as a primary focus.
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, he was there to support striking city sanitation workers and to march for economic justice as part of his Poor People's Campaign. He encountered a city on the brink, with a volatile mix of hard-line viewpoints and constituencies contesting for power. Labor historian Michael Honey sorts out the issues, individuals, and groups, placing all within both local and national contexts, while keeping King and his work as a primary focus.
"Honey's passionate commitment to labor is undisguised, making this effort a worthy and original contribution to the literature."
12/04/2006
"Riveting....[T]he book is lovingly and scrupulously detailed, evoking the high drama that ensued after 'the lowly' demanded respect. In the process it also suggests indelibly how the movement made King, and how King made the movement."
- Scott Saul
05/19/2008
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