A Personal Preface
Introduction: Two Lives Lost
I
LABOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS
1 A PLANTATION IN THE CITY
2 DR. KING, LABOR, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
3 STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING POOR
4 STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS
5 ON STRIKE FOR RESPECT
6 HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS: THE FAILURE OF COMMUNITY
7 TESTING THE SOCIAL GOSPEL
II
FIGHTING FOR THE WORKING POOR
8 MINISTER TO THE VALLEY: THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN
9 BAPTISM BY FIRE
10 MINISTERS AND MANHOOD
11 CONVERGENCE
12 ESCALATION: THE YOUTH MOVEMENT
13 “ALL LABOR HAS DIGNITY”
14 “SOMETHING DREADFUL”
III
JERICHO ROAD IS A DANGEROUS ROAD
15 CHAOS IN THE BLUFF CITY
16 “THE MOVEMENT LIVES OR DIES IN MEMPHIS”
17 STATE OF SIEGE
18 SHATTERED DREAMS AND PROMISED LANDS
19 “A CRUCIFIXION EVENT”
20 RECKONINGS
21 “WE HAVE GOT THE VICTORY”
Epilogue: How We Remember King
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Notes
Main Individuals and Organizations
Bibliography