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Michael Honey

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Economic History

#86

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#112

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#17

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Michael Honey's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters History University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors History University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Michael K. Honey is an American historian, Guggenheim Fellow and Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma in the United States, where he teaches African-American, civil rights and labor history.

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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993) (112)
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007) (36)
Making a Way Out of No Way (2000) (35)
All Labor Has Dignity (2010) (22)
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (2000) (20)
Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina; Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2007) (15)
Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967. By Sidney Fine. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. x + 648 pp. $37.50.) (1990) (12)
Gender, Race, and the Policies of the Labor Department (1988) (8)
Operation Dixie: Labor and Civil Rights in the Postwar South (2002) (7)
Anti-Racism, Black Workers, and Southern Labor Organizing: Historical Notes on a Continuing Struggle (2000) (6)
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice (2018) (5)
Martin Luther King, Jr., the Crisis of the Black Working Class, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike (2002) (5)
Doing Public History at the National Civil Rights Museum: A Conversation With Juanita Moore (1995) (5)
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America (2015) (4)
From Country to City (2000) (4)
“Sharecroppers’ Troubadour”: Can We Use Songs and Oral Poetry as Oral History? (2014) (4)
The War Within the Confederacy: The White Unionists of North Carolina, 1861- 1865 (1986) (3)
Labor and civil rights in the South: The industrial labor movement and black workers in Memphis, 1929-1945. (1987) (3)
Black Workers Remember. (2000) (3)
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2004) (3)
Race, Labor, and the City in the Obama Era: King's Unfinished Agenda (2010) (2)
Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica (2006) (2)
Roll the Union On (2013) (2)
Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the Defeat of Southern Labor Organizing (2020) (2)
Review of "Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration" by C. Marks (1992) (2)
The Popular Front in the American South: The View from Memphis (1986) (2)
There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land (2013) (2)
Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs by Richard Polenberg (A Review) (2016) (1)
We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle (2017) (1)
Industrial Unionism and Racial Justice in Memphis (1991) (1)
Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America (2013) (1)
Forty Years Since King: Labor Rights are Human Rights (2008) (1)
Pete Seeger, San Francisco, 1989 (2007) (1)
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas (2019) (1)
Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements. By James Green. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x, 340 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 1-55849-241-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-55849-242-9.) (2001) (1)
The Power of Remembering: Black Factory Workers and Union Organizing in the Jim Crow Era (2003) (1)
Promoting Labor's Heritage of Solidarity: The Great Labor Arts Exchange (1989) (1)
Sharecropper's Troubadour: Songs of Solidarity in Hard Times (2014) (1)
Lane Windham. Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. (2018) (1)
Class, Race and Power in the New South (1998) (1)
Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition (2013) (1)
Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader. By Troy Jackson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xx, 248 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2520-6.) (2009) (1)
Gender, Race, and Labor Department Policies (1988) (1)
Corporate planning and the chief executive (1979) (1)
Getting Gone to the Promised Land: California (2013) (0)
Memphis Since King: Race, Labor and Civil Rights (2012) (0)
History and Rhetoric of Our Racial Present (2010) (0)
Operation Dixie: Racism and the Red Scare in the Defeat of Post-war Southern Labor (2004) (0)
Fighting on Two Fronts: Black Trade Unionists in the Jim Crow Era (1992) (0)
Review of "Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis," edited by C. Lewis and R. Lewis (2008) (0)
Labor Leadership and Civil Rights in the South: A Case Study (1986) (0)
Leilah Danielson. American Gandhi: A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century. (2015) (0)
The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878–1903. By David Brundage. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xii, 207 pp. $26.93, ISBN 0252-02075-8.) (1995) (0)
The Fate of the Black Working Class (2000) (0)
The Planter and the Sharecropper: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (2013) (0)
History and Rhetoric of Our Racial Present - Race and Pedagogy Conference (2010) (0)
Kimberly K. Little You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2009. Pp. ix, 219. $40.00. (2011) (0)
Racism and the Labor Market in the American South: Memphis, Tennessee, in the Segregation Era (1994) (0)
The Popular Front in the American South: The View from Memphis (1986) (0)
Michael Goldfield. The Southern Key. Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Oxford University Press, New York [etc.] 2020. ix, 416 pp. £32.99. (2021) (0)
John Mitchell and the Richmond Planet, 1885-1900: One view of Black Life and Culture During the Nadir (1981) (0)
Race and Labor in Memphis Since the King Assassination (2012) (0)
Raggedy, Raggedy Are We: Sharecropping and Survival (2013) (0)
“Freedom After ‘While’ ”: Life and Labor in the Jim Crow South (2013) (0)
On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879–1941 by Iaian McIntyre (2020) (0)
The Labor Movement and Racism in the South: An Historical Overview (1983) (0)
Memphis 50 Years Since King: The Unfinished Agenda (2016) (0)
Why It's Time to Get to Know the Black Civil Rights Activist James Lawson: An Interview with Michael K. Honey (2017) (0)
Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Making of a National Leader (review) (2010) (0)
"Labor, the Left, and Civil Rights in Memphis, Tennessee, 1935-1955 (1987) (0)
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Forgotten Speeches | KCTS 9 CONNECTS (2011) (0)
Organizing and Surviving in the Cold War (2000) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1967) (0)
There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land: Terror in Arkansas (2013) (0)
Freedom Struggles at the Point of Production (2000) (0)
Segregation, Racial Violence, and Black Workers (2000) (0)
“I’m So Glad to Be Here Again”: The Return of John Handcox (2013) (0)
Revolutionary Nonviolence (2022) (0)
Book Review: Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis (2005) (0)
To the Mountaintop: The Last Speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2014) (0)
Racism, Organized Labor and the Black Freedom Struggle (2003) (0)
Getting Gone to the Promised Land (2013) (0)
Democracy Now!: Rev. James Lawson & Michael Honey on MLK’s Vision of Worker Solidarity & Economic Justice (2018) (0)
Norway’s Democratic Challenge (2020) (0)
The Planter and the Sharecropper (2013) (0)
I Am a Man (2000) (0)
âFreedom After âWhileâ â (2013) (0)
Tera W. Hunter. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 311. $29.95 (1998) (0)
Revisiting Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign and Unfinished Agenda (2018) (0)
Guy Carawan: July 27, 1927–May 2, 2015 (2015) (0)
The Labor and Civil Rights Movements at the Crossroads: Martin Luther King, Black Sanitation Workers, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike (2004) (0)
Publish & Flourish 2018: To the Promised Land: King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Mike Honey (2018) (0)
Woody Guthrie, L.A., 1937–1941 ed. by Darryl Holter and William Deverell (2017) (0)
Introduction: Music, Memory, and History (2013) (0)
Civil Rights Unionism (2000) (0)
To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (review) (2012) (0)
Woody Guthrie, L.A., 1937–1941 eds. by Darryl Holter and William Deverell (review) (2017) (0)
The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum as a Site of Memory (2018) (0)
Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later (2018) (0)
âIâm So Glad to Be Here Againâ (2013) (0)
The Popular Front in the American South: The View from Memphis (1986) (0)
Black Workers Matter: The Continuing Search for Racial and Economic Equality in Memphis (2018) (0)
Anne Braden: Subversive Southerner (2004) (0)
"Black Workers Remember: Industrial Unionism in the Segregation Era (1994) (0)
Roll the Union On: Interracial Organizing in Missouri (2013) (0)
Raggedy, Raggedy Are We (2013) (0)
James C. Cobb, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936—1980 . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xii + 293 pp. (1984) (0)
The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. (1998) (0)
Jennifer Luff, Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties Between the Wars (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). (1969) (0)
Introduction of Marine Power (2014) (0)
The lowest significant common denominator principle . Occupy Wall Street , SLATE & SNCC : Lessons ? (0)
Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero (2013) (0)
UW Historian Michael Honey Recalls Martin Luther King’s Message of Economic Justice in New Book, ‘To the Promised Land’ (2018) (0)
Toward a Better World: Following the Way of Martin Luther King (2014) (0)

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