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Bausum, Ann

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours

104 pp. | National | January, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4263-0939-7 $19.95 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-0940-3 $28.90
(4) 4-6 "This book is about the story of garbage in...Memphis, Tennessee--and the lives of the men tasked with collecting it." Bausum's well-researched history traces events in 1968 Memphis, beginning with a sanitation workers' strike and culminating with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Though the busy design is distracting, the plentiful, well-captioned (unnecessarily tinted) photos extend the compelling narrative. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Henrietta M. Smith

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