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Going Down Jericho Road, The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, February 2008, by Michael K. Honey
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.
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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
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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