Going down Jericho Road The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

Name: Going down Jericho Road The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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ISBN: 9780393330533

ISBN-10: 0393330532

ISBN-13: 9780393330533

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael K. Honey

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"The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America."David Levering Lewis Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a months-long public-employee strike that would shake the nation. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, this "first-rate chronicle" (Seattle Times) relates the riveting story of the 1968 strike that shook…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



A Personal Preface


Introduction: Two Lives Lost



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


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Notes


Main Individuals and Organizations


Bibliography


Index