04715nam 2200637Ia 450 991078754700332120200520144314.00-8122-0000-410.9783/9780812200003(CKB)2670000000418223(OCoLC)859160775(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748486(MdBmJHUP)muse26824(DE-B1597)449093(OCoLC)979970031(DE-B1597)9780812200003(Au-PeEL)EBL3442097(CaPaEBR)ebr10748486(CaONFJC)MIL682357(OCoLC)932312810(MiAaPQ)EBC3442097(PPN)228487293(EXLCZ)99267000000041822320060818d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrom civil rights to human rights[electronic resource] Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice /Thomas F. JacksonPhiladelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Pressc20071 online resource (468 p.)Politics and culture in modern America1-322-51075-X 0-8122-2089-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-437) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1 Pilgrimage to Christian Socialism --Chapter 2 The Least of These --Chapter 3 Seed Time in the Winter of Reaction --Chapter 4 The American Gandhi and Direct Action --Chapter 5 The Dreams of the Masses --Chapter 6 Jobs and Freedom --Chapter 7 Malignant Kinship --Chapter 8 The Secret Heart of America --Chapter 9 The War on Poverty and the Democratic Socialist Dream --Chapter 10 Egyptland --Chapter 11 The World House --Chapter 12 Power to Poor People --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --AcknowledgmentsMartin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of King's public ministry. Between the 1940's and the 1960's, King was influenced by and in turn reshaped the political cultures of the black freedom movement and democratic left. His vision of unfettered human rights drew on the diverse tenets of the African American social gospel, socialism, left-New Deal liberalism, Gandhian philosophy, and Popular Front internationalism. King's early leadership reached beyond southern desegregation and voting rights. As the freedom movement of the 1950's and early 1960's confronted poverty and economic reprisals, King championed trade union rights, equal job opportunities, metropolitan integration, and full employment. When the civil rights and antipoverty policies of the Johnson administration failed to deliver on the movement's goals of economic freedom for all, King demanded that the federal government guarantee jobs, income, and local power for poor people. When the Vietnam war stalled domestic liberalism, King called on the nation to abandon imperialism and become a global force for multiracial democracy and 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-1960's ghetto uprisings were in fact revolts against unemployment, powerlessness, police violence, and institutionalized racism, King 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.Human rightsUnited StatesAfrican AmericansCivil rightsAmerican History.American Studies.Autobiography.Biography.Human rightsAfrican AmericansCivil rights.323.092Jackson Thomas F279197King Martin LutherJr.,1929-1968.154286MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787547003321From civil rights to human rights3809448UNINA