Franchise by marcia chatelain5/11/2023 Honey adds texture to King's journey from being a descendant of people who ‘experienced deep poverty in the countryside’ to the supporter of striking sanitation workers in Memphis the day before his assassination (p. With clear writing and a thoughtful voice, Honey guides readers through pivotal movements of King's life by foregrounding his tense and symbiotic relationships with the labor movement. Honey rights some of these wrongs in To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. King's legacy is invoked to promote empty multiculturalism and facile ideas of change, and it reflects erasures in civil rights history. The widespread celebration of the King holiday-from churches to schools to corporations-makes this difficult. “Each January, scholars and activists alike prepare to refute superficial and simplistic tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.
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