Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey

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

Michael K. Honey

640 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history race emotional informative slow-paced
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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 sani...

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