Memphis Reads Archive

Labor and Civil Rights Historian Visits
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Saturday January 19, 2:00 p.m.


Author Michael Honey will be at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Saturday, January 19 at 2 p.m. to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Honey’s latest book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign, chronicles the sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 and King’s Poor People’s Campaign. This is the third of Honey's nationally-recognized trilogy of prize-winning books on Memphis labor and civil rights history.

Honey is the Fred and Dorothy Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma. He teaches African American, U.S., civil rights and labor history and Martin Luther King studies. He is a former Southern civil liberties organizer who lived and worked in Memphis.

For more information, call 415-2700.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Memphis/Shelby County Room (4th Floor)
3030 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38111

Book on sale for signing courtesy of Burke's Bookstore.