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The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
W. W. Norton
January 2008
On Sale: April 4, 2008
640 pages
ISBN: 0393330532
EAN: 9780393330533
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation
mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb.
Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor
education, and low wages locked most black workers into
poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up in the
back of a faulty truck, igniting a months-long public-
employee strike that would shake the nation. With
novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, this "first-
rate chronicle" (Seattle Times) relates the riveting story
of the 1968 strike that shook Memphis—and claimed Martin
Luther King's life. 16 pages of illustrations.
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