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

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Going Down Jericho Road

The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

By: Michael K. Honey

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Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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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"...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"

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A Personal Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Two Lives Lost	p. 1
Labor and Civil Rights
A Plantation in the City	p. 7
Dr King, Labor, and the Civil Rights Movement	p. 23
Struggles of the Working Poor	p. 50
Standing at the Crossroads	p. 76
On Strike for Respect	p. 98
Hambone's Meditations: The Failure of Community	p. 128
Testing the Social Gospel	p. 151
Fighting for the Working Poor
Minister to the Valley: The Poor People's Campaign	p. 173
Baptism by Fire	p. 191
Ministers and Manhood	p. 211
Convergence	p. 240
Escalation: the Youth Movement	p. 260
All Labor Has Dignity	p. 287
Something Dreadful	p. 309
Jericho Road is a Dangerous Road
Chaos in the Bluff City	p. 335
The Movement Lives or Dies in Memphis	p. 362
State of Siege	p. 382
Shattered Dreams and Promised Lands	p. 400
A Crucifixion Event	p. 427
Reckonings	p. 451
We Have Got the Victory	p. 483
Epilogue: How We Remember King	p. 497
Acknowledgments	p. 507
A Note on Sources	p. 511
Notes	p. 514
Main Individuals and Organizations	p. 571
Bibliography	p. 575
Index	p. 591
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