Marching to the Mountaintop How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours |
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| Author:
| Bausum, Ann |
| Foreword by:
| Lawson, Jim
National Geographic Kids, |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4263-0945-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | National Geographic Society
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| Imprint: | National Geographic Children's Books |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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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.
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.