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Marching to the Mountaintop

How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

Marching to the Mountaintop( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Bausum, Ann
National Geographic Kids,
ISBN:978-1-4263-0939-7
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:National Geographic Society
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more than one occasion, Dr. Martin...
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