{"product_id":"going-down-jericho-road-michael-k-honey-9780393043396","title":"Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign","description":"Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic \"plantation mentality\" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael K. Honey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393043398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393043396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.52w x 1.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2006 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 111","brand":"Michael K. Honey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47473782325503,"sku":"9780393043396","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5b70b02-9f9d-4cb3-9f23-273cad0675fd.jpg?v=1762312911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/going-down-jericho-road-michael-k-honey-9780393043396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}