To the promised land: Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
Michael K. Honey
- First edition.
- New York W. W Norton & Company 2018
- 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Equality--Economic aspects--History--United States--20th century. African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century. African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century. Poor People's Campaign. Discrimination in employment--History--United States--20th century. Right to labor--History--United States--20th century. Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century. African Americans--Biography. Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.