Michael K. Honey

Haley Professor of Humanities and a founding faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma
Emeritus Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies at the University of Washington
PhD from Northern Illinois
MA from Howard University
BA from Oakland University

Michael K. Honey is the Haley Professor of Humanities and a founding faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma, and emeritus Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies at the University of Washington. He is co-producer and director of the documentary film, Love and Solidarity: Rev. James M. Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights; and author of Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King’s Last Campaign (W.W. Norton, 2007); Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (University of California Press, 1999); Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (University of Illinois Press, 1993); and editor, Martin Luther King, Jr., “All Labor Has Dignity” (Beacon Press, 2011). A Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, he has received numerous book awards and recognition for combining service and activism with scholarship. He is a graduate of Howard University (MA), Northern Illinois University (PhD), and Oakland University (BA).

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