Dr Martin Luther King Jr And The Poor People S Campaign Of 1968
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr And The Poor People S Campaign Of 1968
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Author : Robert Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Dr Martin Luther King Jr And The Poor People S Campaign Of 1968 written by Robert Hamilton and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with History categories.
This book introduces new audiences to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final initiative, the multiracial Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968. Robert Hamilton depicts the experience of poor people who traveled to Washington in May 1968 to dramatize the issue of poverty by building a temporary city, Resurrection City. His narrative allows us to hear their voices and understand the strategies, objectives, and organization of the campaign. In addition, he highlights the campaign's educational aspect, showing that significant social movements are a means by which societies learn about themselves and framing the PPC as an initiative whose example can teach and inspire current and future generations. The study thus situates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and teachings in relation to current events and further solidifies Dr. King’s cultural and sociopolitical relevance. In the decades since 1968, we have seen increasing global inequality leading to greater social polarization, including in the United States. Hamilton offers the insight that the radical politics of Dr. King—as represented in the civil rights and human rights agendas of the PPC—can help us understand and address the challenges of this polarization. Hamilton highlights Dr. King’s commitment to ending poverty and explains why Dr. King’s ideas on this and related issues should be brought to the attention of a wider public who often view him almost exclusively as a civil rights, but not a human rights, leader.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Invites You To Join Us In The Poor People S Campaign Washington D C Spring 1968
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Invites You To Join Us In The Poor People S Campaign Washington D C Spring 1968 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with African Americans categories.
Marks Martin And The Mule Train
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Author : Hilliard Lawrence Lackey
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-02-24
Marks Martin And The Mule Train written by Hilliard Lawrence Lackey and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-24 with Political Science categories.
Marks, Martin and the Mule Train is a third person chronicle of Marks, Mississippi as the origin of the Mule Train component of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The book begins with the backdrop of living conditions in Marks, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, mired in abject poverty during the transition period when farm implements displaced field hands. More than half of area residents had left the cotton fields to work in factories up north. But those that stayed home were devoid of jobs and many were hungry. It was this pervasive sense of hopelessness and widespread hunger that struck Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his two visits to Marks in 1966. His first visit was made to preach the funeral of a marcher who had suffered a heart attack while engaged in the James Meredith March Against Fear from Memphis, TN to Jackson, MS. Allegedly, Dr. King asked some black junior youth what they were going to be when they grew up. Their responses drew tears from the Civil Rights leader when summarily they acknowledged no future because of their skin color. The second visit also aroused tears empathy when Dr. King and Dr. Ralph David Abernathy watched a teacher feed her students four apples and a box of crackers for lunch. Southern public schools declined to accept federal aid for free and reduced meals to sidestep integration. These observations in Marks convinced Dr. King to follow the suggestion of Marian Wright Edelman to lead a Poor Peoples Campaign for jobs and justice. Dr. Abernathy writes in his book And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, that Dr. King wanted the Poor Peoples Campaign to begin at the end of the world, in Marks, Mississippi. And so it did. Even though Dr. King was assassinated on April 14, 1968, his inspired Mule Train left Marks on May 14, 1968. The 1, 000 mile journey took a month to complete but 28 wagons pulled by 56 mules paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue on Juneteenth (June 19)1968 as the centerpiece of the Poor Peoples Campaign. The Mule Train fulfilled one of Dr. Kings dreams.
Uncertain Resurrection
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Author : Chuck Fager
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Uncertain Resurrection written by Chuck Fager and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with categories.
This is the gripping story of the failed effort by Dr. Martin Luther King's associates to carry out his last, most ambitious campaign of activism in the months after his assassination in April 1968. The Poor Peoples' Campaign went beyond demanding civil equality for one racial group; it called for a broad multiethnic effort to end poverty and reverse militarism. Yet despite a huge initial outpouring of goodwill and concrete help, the collapse of the Poor Peoples' Campaign was complete. Its end marked a major setback to civil rights and social activism in the U.S., with ramifications that lasted for years. This book, based on original, first-hand reporting, was initially published in 1969. But until the campaign's 50th anniversary approached, the events of that turbulent summer near the Capitol had been largely forgotten. The story is timely again, even urgent, with the renewal of protest and struggle challenging growing economic inequality, and the relentless spread of militarism. Plans for a revived Poor Peoples' Campaign are set for mid-2018. This new attempt at resurrection is also uncertain, but it reinforces the questioning by a new generation of activists, and raises hope that they can learn from the experience of their forerunners and have a more substantial and lasting impact. To have a chance at that impact, Uncertain Resurrection is an indispensable case study of how badly the best intentions of even highly-talented and dedicated people can go wrong. It's a suspenseful narrative, of an ill-starred crusade that took shape in the wake of murder and riot, aimed at advancing peace and justice, but marched into a maelstrom of confusion and chaos.
A Sound Of Distant Thunder
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Author : Pierre Charles Blum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
A Sound Of Distant Thunder written by Pierre Charles Blum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
All Labor Has Dignity
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Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-01-10
All Labor Has Dignity written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with History categories.
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses made during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous "Mountaintop" speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation workers in Memphis. Unprecedented and timely, "All Labor Has Dignity" will more fully restore our understanding of King's lasting vision of economic justice, bringing his demand for equality right into the present.
Power To The Poor
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Author : Gordon K. Mantler
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-02-25
Power To The Poor written by Gordon K. Mantler and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-25 with Social Science categories.
The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.
Resurrection City 1968
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Author : Jill Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Release Date : 2018-03-27
Resurrection City 1968 written by Jill Freedman and has been published by Damiani Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with African Americans categories.
In May of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. announced the Poor People's Campaign to demanded economic and human rights for poor Americans of diverse backgrounds. The Campaign was organized by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of Dr. King's assassination. After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp called Resurrection City on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968. Published in 1970, Old News: Resurrection City was photographer Jill Freedman's first book. The book documents the encampment in all its complexity Freedman lived in the encampment for its entire six weeks, photographing the residents, their daily lives, their protests, and their eventual eviction. The new 50th anniversary edition of the book, titled Resurrection City, 1968 will reprint most of the 185 pictures from the original publication, presenting them in a more vivid printing and design. Freedman's hard-hitting original text will be included as well. Two introductory essays will be included, by John Edwin Mason, historian of African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, and by Aaron Bryant, Curator of Photography, Visual Culture, and Contemporary Political History at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
King And The Other America
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Author : Sylvie Laurent
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-01-08
King And The Other America written by Sylvie Laurent and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with History categories.
Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. In 1967, he envisioned and designed the Poor People’s Campaign, an interracial effort that was carried out after his death. This campaign brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education. King and the Other America explores this overlooked and obscured episode of the late civil rights movement, deepening our understanding of King’s commitment to social justice and also of the long-term trajectory of the civil rights movement. Digging into earlier radical arguments about economic inequality across America, which King drew on throughout his entire political and religious life, Sylvie Laurent argues that the Poor People’s Campaign was the logical culmination of King’s influences and ideas, which have had lasting impact on young activists and the public. Fifty years later, growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book draws the connections between King's perceptive thoughts on substantive justice and the ongoing quest for equality for all.
Old News
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Author : Jill Freedman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Old News written by Jill Freedman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
