Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Honey, Michael K.
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Honey, Michael K.

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

Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic plantation mentality embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb....
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Author: Michael K. Honey
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Honey, Michael K.

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

$282.21
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Honey, Michael K.

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

$282.21
Author: Michael K. Honey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice.

With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.

Author: Michael K. Honey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/2008
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393330533

About the Author
Honey, Michael K.: - Michael K. Honey, a former Southern civil rights and civil liberties organizer, is Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, where he teaches labor, ethnic, and gender studies and American history. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has won numerous research fellowships and book awards for his books on labor, race relations, and civil rights history, including the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Going Down Jericho Road. He lives in Tacoma with his wife, Pat Krueger.
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