Going Down Jericho Road : : the Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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Call Number: Black Studies 331.892 Ho
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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A plantation in the city -- Dr. King, labor, and the civil rights 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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 619 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393043396 (hardcover)
0393043398 (hardcover)
SUBJECTS
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
Strikes and lockouts -- Sanitation -- Tennessee.