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"Drawing widely on published and unpublished archival sources, Jackson explains the contexts and meanings of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of political and economic power" in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 were in fact revolts against unemployment, powerlessness, police violence, and institutionalized racism, he argued. His final dream, a Poor People's March on Washington, aimed to mobilize Americans across racial and class lines to reverse a national cycle of urban conflict, political backlash, and policy retrenchment. King's vision of economic democracy and international human rights remains a powerful inspiration for those committed to ending racism and poverty in our time."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., ©2007
459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780812239690, 9780812220896, 0812239695, 0812220897
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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