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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“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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