From Civil Rights to Human Rights:
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
by Thomas F. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
459 pp $39.95
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
by Thomas F. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
459 pp $39.95
IN EARLY SUMMER 1960, socialist activist Michael Harrington was asked by his friend and comrade Bayard Rustin to help civil rights groups in Los Angeles plan and organize a march to the site of the Democratic National Convention when it opened deliberations in that city in July. Under the official leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and black labor leader A. Philip Randolph, the Los Angeles “March on the Convention” sought to pressure the Democratic Party to adopt a strong civil rights plank as part of its 1960 presidential campaign platform.
Harrington did his work well, and the march attracted five to six thousand supporters, many more than organizers had anticipated. The day before it stepped off, Harrington pic...
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