num_pages: 640
description: "The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America."David Levering LewisMemphis 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 in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a months-long public-employee strike that would shake the nation. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, this "first-rate chronicle" (Seattle Times) relates the riveting story of the 1968 strike that shook Memphisand claimed Martin Luther King's life. 16 pages of illustrations.
language: English
title: Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
titlecomplete: Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
characters: Martin Luther King Jr.
genres: Biography, Politics, Labor, Nonfiction, American History, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 229
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: H.L. Mitchell Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company