From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice /

"Drawing widely on published and unpublished archival sources, Jackson explains the contexts and meanings of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of political and economic power" in American cities, the nation, and the world. The mid-1960s ghetto uprisings...

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Main Author: Jackson, Thomas F.
Other Authors: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pilgrimage to Christian socialism
  • The least of these
  • Seed time in the winter of reaction
  • The American Gandhi and direct action
  • The dreams of the masses
  • Jobs and freedom
  • Malignant kinship
  • The secret heart of America
  • The war on poverty and the democratic socialist dream
  • Egyptland
  • The world house
  • Power to poor people.