Going Down Jericho Road Pa

by Honey,Michael K.

• ISBN13: 9780393330533
• ISBN10: 0393330532
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America." -- David Levering LewisMemphis 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 in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a months-long public-employee strike that would shake the nation. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, this "first-rate chronicle" (Seattle Times) relates the riveting story of the 1968 strike that shook Memphis -- and claimed Martin Luther King\'s life.

Author Biography

Michael K. Honey, a former Southern civil liberties organizer, is Haley Professor of Humanities and American History at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and the author of two prize-winning books on labor and civil rights history

Table of Contents

A Personal Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Two Lives Lost	p. 1
Labor and Civil Rights
A Plantation in the City	p. 7
Dr King, Labor, and the Civil Rights Movement	p. 23
Struggles of the Working Poor	p. 50
Standing at the Crossroads	p. 76
On Strike for Respect	p. 98
Hambone's Meditations: The Failure of Community	p. 128
Testing the Social Gospel	p. 151
Fighting for the Working Poor
Minister to the Valley: The Poor People's Campaign	p. 173
Baptism by Fire	p. 191
Ministers and Manhood	p. 211
Convergence	p. 240
Escalation: the Youth Movement	p. 260
All Labor Has Dignity	p. 287
Something Dreadful	p. 309
Jericho Road is a Dangerous Road
Chaos in the Bluff City	p. 335
The Movement Lives or Dies in Memphis	p. 362
State of Siege	p. 382
Shattered Dreams and Promised Lands	p. 400
A Crucifixion Event	p. 427
Reckonings	p. 451
We Have Got the Victory	p. 483
Epilogue: How We Remember King	p. 497
Acknowledgments	p. 507
A Note on Sources	p. 511
Notes	p. 514
Main Individuals and Organizations	p. 571
Bibliography	p. 575
Index	p. 591
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