The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. Cleophus Smith marched with Dr. King during the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968. https://nyti.ms/2uJqUER pic.twitter.com/6NT6iHnKSO
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“When we heard that Dr. King was coming to Memphis, to help us in that sanitation strike, we were very surprised. We knew then that there was somebody who cared about our struggle.” https://nyti.ms/2uJqUER pic.twitter.com/yy9Rt2p7Fa
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“Because of Dr. King’s death, that was one of the reasons that Mayor Loeb went on and signed that union into a decree. We got what we wanted, but at the same time, we lost the great leader.” https://nyti.ms/2uJqUER pic.twitter.com/4OQVQp8fdD
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“I really had a lot of animosity. I came from the streets; I was a street thug. And Dr. King was the one that taught me through his humility and his leadership. I said that’s the way I’d like to be.” https://nyti.ms/2uJqUER pic.twitter.com/HhB1jKvm8k
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From July 2017: Memphis said it intended to award tax-free grants of $50,000 each to surviving strikers — an improvised fix to one of the most bitter legacies of Memphis’s labor historyhttps://nyti.ms/2GtMP4n
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Non violence got him killed
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