Going Down Jericho Road by Michael K. Honey

Strikes and lockouts - Sanitation - Tennessee. Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968. 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. died in Memphis, few know what he was doing there, observes labor historian Honey in this moving and meticulous account of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis between January and April 1968. Labor and civil rights - A plantation in the city - Dr. Although many people know Martin Luther King Jr. 'In painting the period's landscape through the case of one local struggle that took on international significance, Honey makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of our past - and helps us understand the racial and class landscape of America today.Xviii, 619 p., p. Trade Paperback available at Half Price Books. 'Going Down Jericho Road is a brilliant achievement.' Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign by Honey, Michael K.

Honey is Professor of African American, Ethnic and Labor Studies, and American History at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT). Honey’s most popular book is Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin. 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. Honey has 11 books on Goodreads with 2660 ratings. 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.

Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Honey online from Australias leading online. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Buy the eBook Going Down Jericho Road, The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign by Michael K.

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