Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

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 and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Honey, Michael K.
Published: 01/17/2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393330533
Pages: 623
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d