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082			_a323.092 JAC 2007
100			_aF. Jackson, Thomas.
245			_aFrom civil rights to human rights : _bMartin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice.
260			_aAmerican of American : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c2007.
300			_a459 p. : _c24 cm.
500			_aContents Introduction Pilgrimage to Christian Socialism The Least of These Seed Time in the Winter of Reaction The American Gandhi and Direct Action The Dreams of the Masses Jobs and Freedom Malignant Kinship The Secret Heart of America The War on Poverty and the Democratic Socialist Dream Egyptland The World House Power to Poor People Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
520			_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 1940s and the 1960s, King was influenced by and in turn reshaped the political cultures of the black freedom movement and democratic left. Drawing widely on published and unpublished archival sources, Jackson explains the contexts and meanings of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of political and economic power" in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-1960s 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.
650		0	_aInternational Human Rights Law
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