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Going down Jericho Road
the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign
By Honey, Michael K.
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-339-6
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2006
In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers went on strike for 68 days against the plantation-like city government run by reactionary mayor Henry Loeb. Martin Luther King, exhausted and demoralized by challenges to his authority by a growing militant black faction and by the FBI's attempts to destroy his credibility, still inspired the workers who ultimately won a contract that made them the highest-paid sanitation workers in the South. Honey (ethnic, gender & labor studie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
