Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

by Ann Bausum

Book Overview

In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426309392
• ISBN13: 9781426309397
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10