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Going Down Jericho Road
Michael Keith Honey
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Description for Going Down Jericho Road
Paperback. The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Num Pages: 640 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JJPK; JFSL3; JPVH; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Memphis 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 like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice.
With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers ... Read more
Memphis 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 like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice.
With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393330533
SKU
V9780393330533
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About Michael Keith Honey
Michael K. Honey, a former Southern civil rights and civil liberties organizer, is Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma, where he teaches labor, ethnic, and gender studies and American history. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has won numerous research fellowships and book awards for his books on labor, race relations, and civil rights history, including ... Read more
Reviews for Going Down Jericho Road
"...brilliant in the way it delineates the economic benefits to Southern society of American apartheid... it is also stirring in portraying the strike leaders, ordinary workers who risked everything to establish their basic rights in the face of arrogant and condescending power." Michael Carlson, The Spectator"