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Omaha Steve

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6. And a great organized labor leader

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 01:52 PM

Mar 2013

Great info here: http://www.afscme.org/union/history/mlk

Photo Credit: Richard L. Copley

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to a packed room of supporters. The next day, he was assassinated.

MLK shirts for sale at AFSCME.

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This morning in 1968 Martin Luther King gave the final Sunday sermon of his life [View all] bigtree Mar 2013 OP

Never forget Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #1

such an all-encompassing sermon bigtree Mar 2013 #2

Now I'm crying. Why do they always kill the best? McCamy Taylor Mar 2013 #3

I don't know. We can only go on. Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #4

Because the best are a REAL threat to their hate filled lives. But what they fail to realize is that jwirr Mar 2013 #5

Because they are dangerous... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #9

I was in training to be a baseball ump that evening Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #11

And a great organized labor leader Omaha Steve Mar 2013 #6

as early as 1961 - Martin Luther King Jr.quoted (from somewhere) on “right to work” bigtree Mar 2013 #7

and our weapon,... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #10

He was becoming more critical of "the system" in the last months of his life... YoungDemCA Mar 2013 #8

Thanks for posting shenmue Mar 2013 #12

. bigtree Mar 2013 #13