How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours
by
Ann Bausum
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their...