The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.

Historical geography of the Bible illustrated on enhanced satellite maps of the Holy Land accompanied by explanatory text.

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Ronny Gentry, no stranger to trouble, is in trouble for real this time. After finding himself in the clutches of "Bank-Nappers," he's in danger of not only losing his life, but also his way, on the Road to Jericho. Aided by his trusty "best dog," Lionel, Ronny is brought into a web of menace and corruption that hadn't ever been seen, this side of the Mississippi. The Road to Jericho is about his travels to Jericho, AR, a hubbub of wanton and reckless living, in the summer of 1949. It's a book about charity, and gratitude, and greed, and the choices that lead us there.

Samantha Hannum is the kind of experienced, calm-under-fire paramedic you'd want if you were badly injured, but the crises and threats she faces each day have begun to erode her compassion and will. She's lost all sense of purpose, a dilemma that is affecting the relationships with her family, friends and the people she serves. Samantha and her rookie partner stumble onto a plot to distribute contaminated medicine. Their discovery puts the medics in grave danger and tests the limits of their cunning and loyalty. Set against the backdrop of a gang war and a violent protest against a local abortion clinic, it's difficult at times for the partners to know if there is an actual plot against them or if they're simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Samantha's world is brutal and unpredictable, but it is also a place where strangers care for others in the most extraordinary conditions. To triumph--and survive--Samantha must find a way to rekindle the humanity she believes she has lost.

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