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Title:
Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign
Author:
Honey, Michael K.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2007]

©2007
Physical Description:
xviii, 619 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780393043396
Format :
Book