LEADER 04735nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910812184503321 005 20240418030731.0 010 $a0-8122-0000-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200003 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418223 035 $a(OCoLC)859160775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748486 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26824 035 $a(DE-B1597)449093 035 $a(OCoLC)979970031 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200003 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748486 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682357 035 $a(OCoLC)932312810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442097 035 $a(PPN)228487293 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418223 100 $a20060818d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom civil rights to human rights$b[electronic resource] $eMartin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice /$fThomas F. Jackson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (468 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and culture in modern America 311 $a1-322-51075-X 311 $a0-8122-2089-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [425]-437) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1 Pilgrimage to Christian Socialism --$tChapter 2 The Least of These --$tChapter 3 Seed Time in the Winter of Reaction --$tChapter 4 The American Gandhi and Direct Action --$tChapter 5 The Dreams of the Masses --$tChapter 6 Jobs and Freedom --$tChapter 7 Malignant Kinship --$tChapter 8 The Secret Heart of America --$tChapter 9 The War on Poverty and the Democratic Socialist Dream --$tChapter 10 Egyptland --$tChapter 11 The World House --$tChapter 12 Power to Poor People --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aMartin 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. 606 $aHuman rights$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 676 $a323.092 700 $aJackson$b Thomas F$0279197 701 $aKing$b Martin Luther$cJr.,$f1929-1968.$0154286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812184503321 996 $aFrom civil rights to human rights$93973803 997 $aUNINA