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Author:

Honey, Michael K., author.

Title:

To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice / Michael K. Honey.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968.
Equality--History--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Poor People's Campaign.
Discrimination in employment--United States--History--20th century.
Right to labor--United States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.

Contents:

"We the disinherited of this land" : kinship with the poor, 1929-1956 -- "We have a powerful instrument" : civil rights unionism and the Cold War, 1957-1963 -- "Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men" : labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964-1966 -- "In God's economy" : organizing the Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968 -- "All labor has dignity" : uprising of the working poor, 1968 -- "Dangerous unselfishness."

ISBN:

0393651266
9780393651263

OCLC:

(OCoLC)988276096

LCCN:

2017060268

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KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

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CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

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SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

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HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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