Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393330533ISBN-10:393330532UPC:9780393330533Book Category:Social Science, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, Labor & Industrial RelationsBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC1QQ81774
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393330533ISBN-10:393330532UPC:9780393330533Book Category:Social Science, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, Labor & Industrial RelationsBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC1QQ81774
Honey, Michael K.: - 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,...
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