Marks, Martin and the Mule Train - Lackey, Hilliard Lawrence
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"A third person chronicle of Marks, Mississippi as the origin of the Mule Train component of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The book begins with the backdrop of living conditions in Marks, a small town in the Mississippi Delta mired in abject poverty ... It was this pervasive sense of hopelessness and widespread hunger that struck Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his two visits to Marks in 1966 ... Dr. Abernathy writes that Dr. King wanted the Poor People's Campaign to begin "at the end of the world," in Marks, Mississippi ... Even though Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, his…mehr

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"A third person chronicle of Marks, Mississippi as the origin of the Mule Train component of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The book begins with the backdrop of living conditions in Marks, a small town in the Mississippi Delta mired in abject poverty ... It was this pervasive sense of hopelessness and widespread hunger that struck Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his two visits to Marks in 1966 ... Dr. Abernathy writes that Dr. King wanted the Poor People's Campaign to begin "at the end of the world," in Marks, Mississippi ... Even though Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, his inspired Mule Train left Marks on May 14, 1968. The 1,000 mile journey took a month to complete, but 28 wagons pulled by 56 mules paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue on Juneteenth (June 19) 1968 as the centerpiece of the Poor People's Campaign."--Jacket page [iii].
Autorenporträt
Hilliard L. Lackey serves as Associate Professor of Urban Higher Education for the Jackson State University (JSU) Executive Ph.D. Program. He earned degrees (B.A., History and Political Science, MS.Ed. in Educational Administration and Supervision, and the Ed.S. in Educational Administration) from Jackson State University and the Ph.D. in Higher Education administration from University of Mississippi. He has been an administrator/professor at JSU including; Director of Alumni Affairs, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President. He has also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of Enrollment Management at LeMoyne-Owen (Memphis, TN). Dr. Lackey is a 2008 inductee into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame, 2003 Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund HBCU Alumnus of the Year, 1997 NAFEO Distinguished alumni Award honoree, and in 2004 the McCormick Freedom Museum of Chicago placed his quote on a monument. He was a Fulbright Fellow to North Africa (the Maghreb) and is an authority on the Historical Geography of the Mississippi Delta.