Audiobook7 hours
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
Written by Michael K. Honey
Narrated by J.D. Jackson
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
More than fifty years ago an assassin's bullet robbed us of one of the most eloquent voices for twentieth-century human rights and justice. Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class, and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including economic injustice.
Phase one of that struggle led to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. In phase two, King organized poor people and demonstrated for union rights, while seeking a "moral revolution" to replace the self-seeking individualism of the rich with an overriding concern for the common good. To the Promised Land asks us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward what he called "the Promised Land" in our own time.
Phase one of that struggle led to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. In phase two, King organized poor people and demonstrated for union rights, while seeking a "moral revolution" to replace the self-seeking individualism of the rich with an overriding concern for the common good. To the Promised Land asks us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward what he called "the Promised Land" in our own time.
Related to To the Promised Land
Related audiobooks
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans from 1880 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFreedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRedemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stokely Carmichael: The Life and Legacy of the Civil Rights Activist Who Led the Black Power Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTonight We Bombed The U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Death in a Promised Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Discrimination & Race Relations For You
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of Policing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SUMMARY Of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jews Don’t Count Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is a Black Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Walk Through Fire: A memoir of love, loss, and triumph Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter to My Rage: An Evolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say the Right Thing: How to Talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for To the Promised Land
Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
4/5
5 ratings0 reviews