King’s Leadership in Memphis Strike

Dr. Martin Luther King’s last days in Memphis in 1968 marked a powerful new turning point in the civil rights movement — an explicit alliance with the labor movement. Indeed, Dr. King was in Memphis organizing with the striking sanitation workers of the western Tennessee city.


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