To the promised land
Subtitle: Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
By: Michael K. Honey
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs; Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781432850470
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Poor People's Campaign; Equality; Civil rights; Right to labor; Civil rights movements; Economic conditions; Discrimination in employment; Large type books; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Other titles: Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
Description: Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including the economic injustice that "takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-407).
Table of contents: title: "We the disinherited of this land" : kinship with the poor, 1929-1956; title: "We have a powerful instrument" : civil rights unionism and the Cold War, 1957-1963; title: "Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men" : labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964-1966; title: "In God's economy" : organizing the Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968; title: "All labor has dignity" : uprising of the working poor, 1968; title: "Dangerous unselfishness."