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 car...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Table of 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."