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Going Down Jericho Road

The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

Michael K. Honey

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English
Norton
08 January 2010
"The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.

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. 16 pages of illustrations"
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Imprint:   Norton
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   518g
ISBN:   9780393330533
ISBN 10:   0393330532
Pages:   640
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

"""...brilliant in the way it delineates the economic benefits to Southern society of American apartheid... it is also stirring in portraying the strike leaders, ordinary workers who risked everything to establish their basic rights in the face of arrogant and condescending power."" Michael Carlson, The Spectator"""


  • Winner of International Labor History Association Book Award 2008
  • Winner of OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award 2008.
  • Winner of Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award 2008
  • Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2008

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