Introduction
Editor's note
Forging a Civil Rights-Labor Alliance in the shadow of the Cold War. A Look to the future ; It is a dark day indeed when men cannot work to implement the ideal of brotherhood without being labeled communist ; We, the Negro people and labor-inevitably will sow the seeds of liberalism ; If the Negro wins, labor wins ; I am in one of those houses of labor to which I come not to criticize, but to praise ; There are three major social evils-the evil of war, the evil of economic injustice, and the evil of racial injustice ; Industry knows only two types of workers who, in years past, were brought frequently to their jobs in chains ; Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy ; Unresolved race question
Standing At The Crossroads: Race, Labor, War, And Poverty. Explosion in Watts reminded us all that the northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men ; Labor cannot stand still long or it will slip backward ; Civil rights at the crossroads; Domestic impact of the war in Vietnam
Down Jericho Road: The Poor People's Campaign And Memphis Strike. The Other America ; All labor has dignity ; To the mountaintop: let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness
Epilogue: King and labor
Appendix: Note on the speeches
Acknowledgments
Index.