February 7. 2007
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Black History Month
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After violence breaks out for the first time in a 1968 march led by Martin Luther King Jr., sanita­
tion workers in Memphis, Tenn. maintain a picket line along National Guard armored vehicles.
Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
Author sheds
light on race
and class
Professor Michael Honey will
discuss his new book. "Going Down
Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike,
Martin Luther King’s Last Cam­
paign, "Saturday, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m.
at Powell’s City of Books.
The San FranciscoChroniclesaid
Honey’s book “makes a crucial
contribution to our understanding
of our past - and helps us under­
stand the racial and class landscape
of America today."
"Going Down Jericho Road" is
the first in-depth story of the 1968
M em phis san itatio n w o rk e rs’
Michael Honey
strike, a pivotal moment in the
late 20th-century human rights
movem ent. This is the first book
to tel I the story of the strike, which
started after two sanitation work-
ers died in their truck due to out­
dated equipm ent and the indiffer­
ence of their white supervisors.
Their deaths touched off one of
the most significant labor strikes
in the history of the nation, one
that before its end would rock the
plantation mentality of M emphis'
governm ent to its core and, on
April 4, 1968, see the tragic death
o f Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Honey masterfully untangles the
complex relations and events of
1968 with a scholar's eye and the
passion of one who himself partici­
pated in the movement.
Honey is professor of African-
American and labor studies and
American history at the University
of Washington Tacoma. He is a
nationally-recognized expert on
civil rights and labor issues.
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Religion, Rape and Racism
Drama on the
Mississippi Delta
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Black soil and cotton, blue skies and the muddy
Mississippi River weave themselves into a tale to
stir the soul and bring a tear to the eye. DeCarlton
Wooten’s "Sadie's Row" isadramatic novel about
one girl coming of age under oppressive social
conditions of the Deep South.
The principal character o f the story is young
Sadie, born in a struggling family scratching a
living out of the Black Belt plantations along the
Mississippi River. Life for Sadie was simple
until she goes to work fo ra mysterious family.
While befriending the daughter, Sadie uncovers
a horrifying secret. Conflicted by the laws of
the land and the vast gulf of racism, she flees
together with her new friend into the vast
wilderness of the Deep South as they are being
pursued by a man with dark intentions.
"Sadie's Row" is a heartwarming, soul-lifting
novel detailing the hard times and joys of life in
the Mississippi Delta. Author DeCarlton Wooten
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