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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Honey, Michael K. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.
Why this matters here
Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road reconstructs the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike, including dangerous conditions, the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, local organizing under T.O. Jones, and King’s entry into a struggle workers had already begun. When Others Become Leaders uses that history to insist famous leaders often join local grievances after quieter methods are exhausted. Honey documents the strike campaign; the book’s claim is about leadership circulation, in which King entered a grievance he did not create.
