The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the Fbi, and the Poor People's Campaign

by Gerald D. McKnight, Poor People's Campaign, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813333849
• ISBN13: 9780813333847
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"