From Civil Rights to Human Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. , and the Struggle for Economic Justice

Name: From Civil Rights to Human Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. , and the Struggle for Economic Justice
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ISBN: 9780812239690

ISBN-10: 0812239695

ISBN-13: 9780812239690

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas F. Jackson

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"Drawing widely on published and unpublished archival sources, Jackson explains the contexts and meanings of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of political and economic power" in American cities, the nation, and the world. The mid-1960s ghetto uprisings were in fact revolts against unemployment, powerlessness, police violence, and institutionalized racism, he argued. His final dream, a Poor People's March on Washington, aimed to mobilize Americans across racial and class lines to reverse a national cycle of urban conflict, political backlash, and policy retrenchment. King's vision of economic democracy and international human rights remains a powerful inspiration…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Thomas F. Jackson is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.



Introduction



Pilgrimage to Christian Socialism



The Least of These



Seed Time in the Winter of Reaction



The American Gandhi and Direct Action



The Dreams of the Masses



Jobs and Freedom



Malignant Kinship



The Secret Heart of America



The War on Poverty and the Democratic Socialist Dream



Egyptland



The World House



Power to Poor People


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments