To the promised land
Subtitle: Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
By: Michael K. Honey
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780393651263
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Poor People's Campaign; Equality; Civil rights; Right to labor; Civil rights movements; Economic conditions; Discrimination in employment; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.
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."