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

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Wydawca: W. W. Norton & Company Opis produktu 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. Specyfikacja SKU: NORT003376016 EAN: 9780393330533 Waga: 590 g Author: Honey, Michael K. Binding: Paperback Pages: 640 Publication Year: 2008 BISAC Category 1: SOC001000 BISAC Category 2: HIS036120 BISAC Category 3: POL013000