King and the other America : the Poor People's Campaign and the quest for economic equality / Sylvie Laurent ; foreword by William Julius Wilson.

"Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. A neglected and obscured episode of the late Civil Rights movement, The Poor People's Campaign, designed by King in 1967 and carried out a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Laurent, Sylvie (Author)
Other Authors:	Wilson, William J., 1935- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:	King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Influence. King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968. Equality > United States. Poor > United States. Poor People's Campaign. Equality. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Poor. United States. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Physical Description:	xii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The patriarchs
The prophets of justice
The city and the church
The torchbearer
The pauper
An "American commune"
A counter-war on poverty
Facing structural injustice
A "right not to starve."