Michael Honey is the author of many books, including Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King’s Last Campaign, and To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. He also edited a book of King’s labor speeches, All Labor Has Dignity.
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated 55 years ago today while in Memphis standing in solidarity with striking sanitation workers. His life and radical words stand as a beacon of hope, urging us to keep fighting for economic and racial justice.
Until his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr led an unheralded struggle for economic justice.