Leid Stories - 04.07.22

2022-04-07

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories: It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Dr. King had gone to Memphis to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay, safer working conditions, and better job opportunity -- and to begin to organize national advocacy efforts around the issue. Black workers and King had struck a decisive blow against economic apartheid in America. Why ...

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories:

It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.

Dr. King had gone to Memphis to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay, safer working conditions, and better job opportunity -- and to begin to organize national advocacy efforts around the issue.

Black workers and King had struck a decisive blow against economic apartheid in America. Why did it die?

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