Introduction
1. Pilgrimage to Christian Socialism
2. The Least of These
3. Seed Time in the Winter of Reaction
4. The American Gandhi and Direct Action
5. The Dreams of the Masses
6. Jobs and Freedom
7. Malignant Kinship
8. The Secret Heart of America
9. The War on Poverty and the Democratic Socialist Dream
10. Egyptland
11. The World House
12. Power to Poor People
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
From Civil Rights to Human Rights examines King's lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial justice, and international peace. Drawing upon broad research in published sources and unpublished manuscript collections, Jackson positions King within the social movements and momentous debates of his time.
Thomas F. Jackson is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
"Never before have King's social and political ideas been so
thoroughly documented nor so persuasively explicated. Future
generations of King scholars will owe Jackson a debt of gratitude
for this monumental book of enduring value."
*Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and
Education Institute, Stanford University, Senior Editor, The
Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.*
"Jackson makes a persuasive case that King was exposed to various
radical critiques at an early stage, that he laced his speeches
with moral indictments of inequality and praise for Scandinavian
social democracies, and that he sympathized-in private though not
in public (at least before the mid-1960s)-with more left-wing
critiques of American society."
*Chicago Tribune*
"In this impressive and original account, Jackson challenges us to
confront what King and movement activists knew from lifelong
experience: that poverty and racism are fundamentally problems of
power. . . . Equally compelling is Jackson's portrait of a
radicalism grounded in the give and take of movement building and
in the vast store of learning it entailed."
*Alice O'Connor, author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science,
Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S.
History*
"An important contribution to modern American history-and a painful
reminder of just how far we are from the Promised Land."
*Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil
Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age*
"Jackson takes us through the progression of King's public life,
including the iconic events-Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, the
Washington march, Selma, Memphis-closely analyzing the ideas, the
people, and the conjunction of circumstances particularly
influential at the time, as measured by exhaustive analysis of
King's speeches, writings, and private conversations (courtesy of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation)."
*Journal of American History*
"More than any other historian of the movement, Jackson takes the
civil rights leader's ideas seriously. . . .The book was written
for academics, but it deserves a large audience. . . . it should
help to reshape our collective understanding not only of King and
the civil rights movement, but of the movements for peace and
racial and economic justice that preceded King and continue
today."
*Texas Observer*
"From Civil Rights to Human Rights should reinforce King's
credentials as one, and perhaps the wisest, of the radical voices
of the 1960s."
*Dissent*
"[The book] is the first to produce a sustained analysis of the
origins and development of King's radical economic analysis and the
politics it mandated. . . . Jackson's book rips away the false
curtain of moderation and reveals the substance of a rare leader
who gave his life in the pursuit of global human rights."
*Sociological Inquiry*
"A more sensitive treatment of King's legacy and its implications
for advancing economic democracy does not exist."
*The Historian*
"A notable contribution to social, cultural, economic, and African
American studies."
*Choice*
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