To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice

by Michael K. Honey

“Organized labor is one of the Negro’s strongest allies in the struggle for freedom.”

“the tragic inequalities of an economic system which takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Jeff Woods calls a distinctive “southern red scare” designed to use anticommunism to frighten whites away from integration.

“Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor.”