MLK's Last, Unrecognized Legacy

Guest: Michael Honey, PhD, Fred and Dorothy Haley Professor of Humanities, University of Washington Tacoma, Author of "To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice" On this national holiday honoring Dr. King, we remember his civil rights legacy and iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. But we rarely hear about what he did after Congress passed landmark Civil Rights and voting legislation. He organized a fight for economic justice called the "Poor People's Campaign” –it was the reason he was in Memphis the day he was assassinated.