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Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign / Michael K. Honey.

Honey, Michael K. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393043398
  • ISBN: 9780393043396
  • Physical Description: xviii, 619 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2007]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-586) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Labor and civil rights -- A plantation in the city -- Dr. King, labor, and the civil rights movement -- Struggles of the working poor -- Standing at the crossroads -- On strike for respect -- Hambone's meditations : the failure of community -- Testing the social gospel -- Fighting for the working poor -- Minister to the valley : the poor people's campaign -- Baptism by fire -- Ministers and manhood -- Convergence -- Escalation : the youth movement -- "All labor has dignity" -- "Something dreadful" -- Jericho Road is a dangerous road -- Chaos in the bluff city -- "The movement lives or dies in Memphis" -- State of siege -- Shattered dreams and promised lands -- "A crucifixion event" -- Reckonings -- "We have got the victory" -- Epilogue : how we remember King.
Subject: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
Strikes and lockouts > Sanitation > Tennessee.

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