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Today's book recommendation for Black Hisory Month is "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In this, his last book, published in 1967, King reflects on the journey of the civil rights movement, its goals and its successes, and also the areas where progress was still unfulfilled, and the challenges that still lay ahead.
The most pressing fresh challenge as he saw it was economic equality. The political equality of voting rights alone couldn't bring people to their full potential if they still struggle with systemic pressures holding them back. He discusses jobs, wages and housing issues. He also writes in support of Universal Basic Income: "I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective—the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
He also calls for black people to declare their own personal freedom with full confidence, independent of white structural permissions:
“The Black man must reach down to the inner depths of his soul and sign his own Emancipation Proclamation. Psychological freedom is the most powerful weapon against the long night of slavery and no Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation or Johnsonian civil rights bill can bring this kind of enduring freedom.”
Link to book here:
@CommonSparrow Thanks for sharing.