Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign /
Honey, Michael K.
Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign / Michael K. Honey. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. - xviii, 619 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-586) and index.
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.
9780393043396 (hardcover)
2006032217
GBA6A5863 bnb
013629204 Uk
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee.
HD5325.S2572 1968 / M465 2007
331.892/81363720976819
Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign / Michael K. Honey. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. - xviii, 619 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-586) and index.
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.
9780393043396 (hardcover)
2006032217
GBA6A5863 bnb
013629204 Uk
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee.
HD5325.S2572 1968 / M465 2007
331.892/81363720976819