as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for “nonviolent resistance” to all forms of oppression-including the economic injustice that “takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” Phase one of King’s agenda led to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Tillįifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. “ To the Promised Land helps us to remember King as a prophet for poor and working-class people, as we carry on that campaign against racism and poverty in our own times.
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