Michael K. Honey

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393651270
• Artikelnr.: 59591370

Autorenporträt

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.