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The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.s last crusade.

Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic plantation mentality embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice.
With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor Peoples Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America. 16 pages of illustrations

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Further praise for
GOING DOWN JERICHO ROAD

Going Down Jericho Road is a brilliant achievement.

William S. McFeely, author of Frederick Douglass

Is there a compelling reason for another book on Martin Luther King Jr.?The short answer is yes. In painting the periods landscape through the case of one local struggle that took on international significance, Honey makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of our pastand helps us understand the racial and class landscape of America today.

Rick Ayers, San Francisco Chronicle

[An] absorbing, definitive history.

Leonard Gill, Memphis Flyer

Honeys fine book will be the definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America. No source seems missing, no pertinent interview untaken, no perspective ignored. Going Down Jericho Road is history as it actually was.

David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author of W. E. B. Du Bois

A first-rate chronicle. Going Down Jericho Road succeeds because Honey tells the story through individuals, putting a human face to the strike, the civil-rights movement and the efforts by Memphis to stop it. Honeys analysis of Kings role is sharp and telling. Vivid.

Charles R. Cross, Seattle Times

Who could imagine there was still so much to excavate and to grasp about Dr. Kings last stand? From the poignant glimpses of the lives of Memphiss black sanitation workers, to the back-room maneuvering among leadership allies and rivals, Michael Honey brings it all to life: the last campaign, the last days, the last hours, the final moments. This is a dramatic and engaging work of history, illuminating an entire era through the glittering examination of the final mountaintop and the crevasse beyond.

Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock and There Is No Me Without You

[ Going Down Jericho Road ] is brilliant in the way it delineates the economic benefits to Southern society of American apartheid. It is also stirring in portraying the strike leaders, ordinary workers who risked everything to establish their basic rights in the face of arrogant and condescending power.

Michael Carlson, The Spectator (UK)

Going Down Jericho Road is a masterful piece of documentary history. It is also a new look at one man in particularKing, the one-dimensionalized martyr of the civil rights struggle, whom Honey evokes anew through the use of fresh and unfamiliar quotes.

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Dissent

Going Down Jericho Road provides fresh insight into Martin Luther Kings last battle in his struggle against racial injustice. Through the vivid and moving story he tells, Honey takes the reader on a trip back in time. Going Down Jericho Road shows how the past is not past, but is intimately linked to the continuing American debate about social justice.

W. Ralph Eubanks, author of Ever Is a Long Time

Michael Honey knows Memphisand its labor and civil rights historyfrom the inside out. A compelling history.

Bruce Nelson, Labor History

When I put this book down, I could only say, Bravo, Michael Honey. With riveting detail, analytic fluency, and a deep respect for the difficulty of achieving social change, Honey dissects internal leadership struggles, FBI harassment, and Kings own, sometimes paralyzing self doubts. I loved, and was inspired by, this deeply human portrait of King.

Alice Kessler Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity

Honey excels at describing the sanitation workers plight, portraying the strikes leadersand recounting how the strikersfought to escape the hell of poverty and racism. This stunning combination of impeccable scholarship, enhanced by fascinating oral histories and a page-turning style, results in an important contribution to labor history and to the literature of Martin Luther King.

Library Journal

Honeyfills an important gap in the story of Dr. King and the civil rights movement with this solid book that captures the excitement of the times.

The Sunday Republican (Connecticut)

This book is about more than just one man. It is an assiduously documented account of the scores of men and women whose individual acts of bravery ultimately added up to a significant victory over Jim Crow. Honey writes with conviction and the knowledge of an insider.

Kitsap Sun (Washington)

[Honey] vividly captures many dramatic moments, including marches and sermons as well as Kings assassination and its violent aftermath. Honeys passionate commitment to labor is undisguised, making this effort a worthy and original contribution to the literature.

Publishers Weekly, starred review

This is one of the best books about organizing I have ever read, and a great story of the civil rights movement written from the perspective of a union. Writing such a book is the achievement of a lifetime.

Stewart Acuff, National Director of Organizing, AFL-CIO

GOING DOWN
JERICHO ROAD
ALSO BY MICHAEL K. HONEY

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights:
Organizing Memphis Workers

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation,
Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle


GOING DOWN JERICHO ROAD The Memphis Strike Martin Luther Kings Last - photo 1

GOING DOWN
JERICHO ROAD

The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign

MICHAEL K. HONEY

Picture 2

W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

NEW YORK LONDON

Copyright 2007 by Michael K. Honey
Frontispiece photograph copyright Richard L. Copley

All rights reserved
First published as a Norton 2008

For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Honey, Michael K.
Going down Jericho Road: the Memphis strike, Martin Luther Kings last campaign / Michael K. Honey.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-393-07832-9
1. Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968. 2. Strikes and lockoutsSanitationTennessee. 3. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 19291968. I. Title.

HD5325.S25721968 M465 2007

331.89281363720976819dc22

2006032217

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
www.wwnorton.com

W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT

Dedicated to T. O. Jones and the Memphis workers and activists
who put Kings beliefs into action,
and to my parents, Keith Honey and Elizabeth Miner Honey

You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. The question is not: if I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me? The question is: if I dont stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?

Martin Luther King, Memphis, April 3, 1968

I choose to identify with the underprivileged. I choose to identify with the poor. I choose to give my life for the hungry. I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunityseeing life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign. This is the way Im going. If it means suffering a little bit, Im going that way. If it means dying for them, Im going that way.

Martin Luther King, The Good Samaritan, Chicago, August 28, 1966

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Martin Luther King spoke repeatedly before unions and called for a laborcivil - photo 3

Martin Luther King spoke repeatedly before unions and called for a laborcivil rights alliance. His support for striking workers at the Scripto factory in Atlanta helped them to win their strike in 1964. (Reuther Archives)

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