THE LAST CRUSADE: Martin Luther King, Jr., The FBI And The Poor People's Campaign

McKnight, Gerald D.

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Oxford UK. 1998. Westview Press, 1998

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black & black speckled 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. hightlighted copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. a few faint specks on the foredge, other edges clean. 4 pages at the beginning (11, 12, 13 & 14) with yellow, orange & green highlighter, rest of contents clean. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice reading or study copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. 2nd printing (#2 in # line). v +192p. notes. bibliography. index. biography. american history. american civil rights movement. covert operations. espionage. ~ In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor People's Campaign, the last large~scale demonstration of civil rights~era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his executive officers to subvert King's ambitious effort to force the federal government to live up to its promises of a Great Society. The book also looks at King's last days as he helped Memphis sanitation workers in their labor~cum~civil rights struggle with a recalcitrant and racist city government. Although there is no persuasive evidence that the FBI and the Memphis police conspired to assassinate King, McKnight marshals evidence to show that neither agency was blameless. The conventional view of the Poor People's Campaign is that it was a self~inflicted failure. The blame rested squarely on the shoulders of the second~raters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who failed to fill the leadership vacuum after King's assassination. But, as McKnight shows, there was a hidden, dark counterpoint to the accepted version~namely, the triumph of the 1960s American surveillance state and its repressive power and flagrant violation of protected freedoms. In fact, whatever the FBI wanted to do to disrupt the Campaign, it did, aided and abetted by local police agencies and elements of the federal government, including military intelligence.…

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THE LAST CRUSADE: Martin Luther King, Jr., The FBI And The Poor People's Campaign
Auteur
McKnight, Gerald D.
Éditeur
Oxford UK. 1998. Westview Press
Année de publication
1998
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Jaquette
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anglais
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0813333849
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9780813333847
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