From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Subtitle: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780812239690
Subjects: Biography: general; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Biography & Autobiography; Ethnic Issues; Biography/Autobiography; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; People of Color; African Americans; Civil rights; Human rights; United States
First sentence: Over the course of his public ministry, between the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956 and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike of 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., wove together African American dreams of freedom with global dreams of political and economic e