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Going Down Jericho Road, The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, February 2008, by Michael K. Honey
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The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.
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'Going Down Jericho Road:' MLK's Last Fight
January 15, 2007, 11:00 AM ET
Heard on Fresh Air
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"All Labor Has Dignity" offers depth, intelligence, and passion -- and an eerie sense of timeliness.![](https://r7k2t3x9.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/img-66080.jpg)
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On April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The venerated civil rights leader is best remembered for his fearless commitment to non-violence in the struggle for racial equality. However the pursuit of racial justice was interrelated with the pursuit of a more just society in many arenas, including that of workers’ rights. King was killed while traveling in Memphis in support of a historic strike of the city’s black sanitation workers.
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Talk by Prof. Michael Honey editor of the book "All Labor Has Dignity" on "History and Memory: Revisiting King's Vision of Labor Rights and Economic Justice" recorded January 21, 2011 at Smith Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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While researching at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta in 1992, Washington University professor Michael Honey found an inconspicuous folder marked "King's Labor Speeches." He opened it, and found a trove of King's addresses to labor unions and workers' rights coalitions—most of which had never been published.
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By Larry Larue, Tacoma Weekly, Thursday, 22 September 2016
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It’s no coincidence that a CNN documentary series on the decades of the American 20th century drew its highest ratings when dealing with the 1960s and 1970s.
Michael Honey remembers them – they shaped his life.
“It was an amazing time in this country – you had the fight for civil rights, black power, feminism, Vietnam,” Honey said. “I was arrested in a Louisville, Ky. at a civil rights protest. That’s when they started my FBI file.”
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