Marching to the Mountaintop How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

Name: Marching to the Mountaintop How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours
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ISBN: 9781426309397

ISBN-10: 1426309392

ISBN-13: 9781426309397

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ann Bausum, National Geographic Kids

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In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more than one occasion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.King added his voice to the struggle in what became the final speech of his life. His assassination in Memphis on April 4 not only sparked protests and violence throughout America; it helped force…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 1/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 9.13" wide x 11.42" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English