CONTENTS

Introduction: PROMISED LAND

1.  “WE THE DISINHERITED OF THIS LAND”

Kinship with the Poor, 1929–1956

2.  “WE HAVE A POWERFUL INSTRUMENT”

Civil Rights Unionism and the Cold War, 1957–1963

3.  “NORTHERN GHETTOS ARE THE PRISONS OF FORGOTTEN MEN”

Labor and Civil Rights at the Crossroads, 1964–1966

4.  “IN GOD’S ECONOMY”

Organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, 1967–1968

5.  “ALL LABOR HAS DIGNITY”

Uprising of the Working Poor, 1968

6.  “DANGEROUS UNSELFISHNESS”

Acknowledgments

Source Notes

Image Credits

Quotation Credits

Index