Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Coce

Marching to the mountaintop [electronic resource] : how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours / by Ann Bausum.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource : ill. (some col.)ISBN:
  • 9781426309458 (electronic bk.)
  • 1426309457 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781426309397
  • 1426309392
  • 9781426309403
  • 1426309406
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marching to the mountaintop.DDC classification:
  • 323.092 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.K5 B38 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Death in Memphis -- Strike! -- Impasse -- A war on poverty -- Marching in Memphis -- Last days -- Death in Memphis, reprise -- Overcome -- Afterword -- King's campaigns -- Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Research notes and acknowledgments -- Resource guide.
Summary: One minute she could see a sanitation worker struggling to climb out of the refuse barrel of a city garbage truck. The next minute mechanical forces pulled him back into the cavernous opening. It looked to her as though the man's raincoat had snagged on the vehicle, foiling his escape attempt. "His body went in first and his legs were hanging out," said the eyewitness, who had been sitting at her kitchen table in Memphis, Tennessee, when the truck paused in front of her home. Next, she watched the man's legs vanish as the motion of the truck's compacting unit swept the worker toward his death. "The big thing just swallowed him," she reported.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

OSLIS\Gale Nat Geo eBooks(2/2/23).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Death in Memphis -- Strike! -- Impasse -- A war on poverty -- Marching in Memphis -- Last days -- Death in Memphis, reprise -- Overcome -- Afterword -- King's campaigns -- Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Research notes and acknowledgments -- Resource guide.

One minute she could see a sanitation worker struggling to climb out of the refuse barrel of a city garbage truck. The next minute mechanical forces pulled him back into the cavernous opening. It looked to her as though the man's raincoat had snagged on the vehicle, foiling his escape attempt. "His body went in first and his legs were hanging out," said the eyewitness, who had been sitting at her kitchen table in Memphis, Tennessee, when the truck paused in front of her home. Next, she watched the man's legs vanish as the motion of the truck's compacting unit swept the worker toward his death. "The big thing just swallowed him," she reported.

Description based on print version record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.