Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the Fbi, and the Poor People's Campaign
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Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the Fbi, and the Poor People's Campaign

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Title: Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the Fbi, and the Poor People's Campaign Author: Gerald D McKnight ISBN: 9780813333847 Publisher: Basic Books Published: 1998 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher 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.The conventional view of the

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