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- catalog abstract "In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor People's Campaign, the last large-scale demonstration of civil rights-era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his executive officers to subvert King's ambitious effort to force the federal government to live up to its promises of a Great Society. The book also looks at King's last days as he helped Memphis sanitation workers in their labor-cum-civil rights struggle with a recalcitrant and racist city government. Although there is no persuasive evidence that the FBI and the Memphis police conspired to assassinate King, McKnight marshals evidence to show that neither agency was blameless. The conventional view of the Poor People's Campaign is that it was a self-inflicted failure. The blame rested squarely on the shoulders of the second raters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who failed to fill the leadership vacuum after King's assassination. But, as McKnight shows, there was a hidden, dark counterpoint to the accepted version - namely, the triumph of the 1960s American surveillance state and its repressive power and flagrant violation of protected freedoms. In fact, whatever the FBI wanted to do to disrupt the Campaign, it did, aided and abetted by local police agencies and elements of the federal government, including military intelligence.".
- catalog contributor b10497786.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor People's Campaign, the last large-scale demonstration of civil rights-era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his executive officers to subvert King's ambitious effort to force the federal government to live up to its promises of a Great Society. The book also looks at King's last days as he helped Memphis sanitation workers in their labor-cum-civil rights struggle with a recalcitrant and racist city government. Although there is no persuasive evidence that the FBI and the Memphis police conspired to assassinate King, McKnight marshals evidence to show that neither agency was blameless.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.".
- catalog description "King, Vietnam, and the transformation of the civil rights movement -- The road to Washington goes through Memphis -- Memphis: days of rage, days of sorrow -- "The poor people are coming!" "The poor people are coming!" -- Resurrection City -- shantytown among the cherry trees.".
- catalog description "The conventional view of the Poor People's Campaign is that it was a self-inflicted failure. The blame rested squarely on the shoulders of the second raters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who failed to fill the leadership vacuum after King's assassination. But, as McKnight shows, there was a hidden, dark counterpoint to the accepted version - namely, the triumph of the 1960s American surveillance state and its repressive power and flagrant violation of protected freedoms. In fact, whatever the FBI wanted to do to disrupt the Campaign, it did, aided and abetted by local police agencies and elements of the federal government, including military intelligence.".
- catalog extent "v, 192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Last crusade.".
- catalog identifier "0813333849 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Last crusade.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press,".
- catalog relation "Last crusade.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "364.15/24/092 21".
- catalog subject "E185.97.K5 M38 1998".
- catalog subject "Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.".
- catalog subject "Internal security United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.".
- catalog subject "Poor People's Campaign.".
- catalog subject "United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "King, Vietnam, and the transformation of the civil rights movement -- The road to Washington goes through Memphis -- Memphis: days of rage, days of sorrow -- "The poor people are coming!" "The poor people are coming!" -- Resurrection City -- shantytown among the cherry trees.".
- catalog title "The last crusade : Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign / Gerald D. McKnight.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".