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Memphis Sanitation Workers, on MLK Legacy and the Road to Dignity

by Center for Community Change | June 7, 2018 12:16 pm

50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Memphis sanitation workers are still struggling in difficult working conditions. MLK traveled to Tennessee hoping to help their cause for equity and dignity, but five decades later, sanitation workers say little progress has been made.

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