King, Labor & Economic Justice

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The connections between Martin Luther King, labor and economic justice will be explored in a special May 15 event at Busboys and Poets. The Labor Heritage Foundation and the Poverty Research Action Council host Michael Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, and Thomas Jackson, author of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice. Cornel West calls Going Down Jericho Road a "magisterial treatment of a this neglected period," that tells of King as a labor leader, of black workers who struggled for human dignity, and of the struggle for union rights that took King's life. Jackson's From Civil Rights to Human Rights vividly places King's unfolding dreams of racial, economic, and international justice in their contentious political and social movement contexts. The event will feature comments by Honey, Jackson, and William Lucy, President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME, and a performance by the DC Labor Chorus. For more info, click here.

 

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