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Historian and author of the new book To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. He edited a book of King’s labor speeches, titled All Labor Has Dignity. He won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his previous book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Sanitation Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign.