MLK and Economic Justice

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 14, 2011

Michael Honey, former Southern civil rights organizer and professor of labor and ethnic history at the University of Washington-Tacoma, discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s economic justice legacy. Honey is the editor of "All Labor Has Dignity," a new collection of King's speeches on labor rights and economic justice, and the author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign.

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