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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for “nonviolent resistance” to all forms of oppression, including the economic injustice that “takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
“Either we go up together or we go down together,” King cautioned, a message just as urgent in America today as then. To the Promised Land challenges us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King’s legacy and move toward his vision of “the Promised Land” in our own time.
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for “nonviolent resistance” to all forms of oppression, including the economic injustice that “takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
“Either we go up together or we go down together,” King cautioned, a message just as urgent in America today as then. To the Promised Land challenges us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King’s legacy and move toward his vision of “the Promised Land” in our own time.
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for “nonviolent resistance” to all forms of oppression, including the economic injustice that “takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
“Either we go up together or we go down together,” King cautioned, a message just as urgent in America today as then. To the Promised Land challenges us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King’s legacy and move toward his vision of “the Promised Land” in our own time.
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, including the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Going Down Jericho Road. He lives in Tacoma with his wife, Pat Krueger.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Promised Land 1
1 "We the Disinherited of this Land": Kinship with the Poor, 1929-1956 19
3 "We Have a Powerful Instrument": Civil Rights Unionism and the Cold War, 1957-1963 47
3 "Northern Ghettos are the Prisons of Forgotten Men": Labor and Civil Rights at the Crossroads, 1964-1966 83
4 "In God's Economy": Organizing the Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968 113
5 "All Labor has Dignity": Uprising of the Working Poor, 1968 135