Book/Author discussion: Michael Honey and "All Labor Has Dignity
Washington , DC
April 4, 2011 01:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Contact: 202-974-8153
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Award-winning historian Michael Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, has -- for the first time ever -- compiled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speeches on labor and economic justice.
Many remember King as a pioneering civil rights leader. Fewer recall that economic justice and workers’ rights were an integral part of his vision for racial equality.
On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to support sanitation workers demanding the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life. The night before, he delivered his momentous "Mountaintop" speech, one of those included in All Labor Has Dignity.
This April 4, working people across America will take part in We Are One gatherings in solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights King gave his life for.
Join us April 4 at the AFL-CIO at 1 p.m. for this powerful reading and discussion.
"As this powerful and inspiring collection shows, Dr. King was a tireless champion of the working class. But All Labor Has Dignity is not just a testament to his rhetorical legacy—it is a call to action." —Richard L. Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
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