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To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice / Michael K. Honey.

Honey, Michael K., (author.).

Summary:

Beyond Martin Luther King's dream of civil and voting rights lay a revolutionary vision of economic justice.(WorldCAT)

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393651263
  • ISBN: 0393651266
  • Physical Description: 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"We the disinherited of this land": kinship with the poor, 1929-1956 -- "We have a powerful instrument": civil rights unionism and the cold war, 1957-1963 -- "Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men": labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964-1966 -- "In God's economy": organizing the Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968 -- "All labor has dignity": uprising of the working poor, 1968 -- "Dangerous unselfishness."
Subject: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Equality > Economic aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Poor People's Campaign.
Discrimination in employment > United States > History > 20th century.
Right to labor > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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