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AuthorHoney, Michael K.TitleGoing down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King’s last campaign / Michael K. Honey.Edition1st ed.
PublishedNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.FormatBook
Descriptionxviii, 619 p., [16] p. of plates ; : ill. ; 25 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032217.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 571-586) and index.
ContentsLabor 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.
ISBN9780393043396 (hardcover)0393043398 (hardcover)Per.Sub.King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
SubjectSanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
Strikes and lockouts -- Sanitation -- Tennessee.

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