Oh, my.
It never signified for me, until now, that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his amazing last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop", [links to full text] in support of striking garbage collectors.
King said, "The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers." [boldface mine]
Photo ^ via pixhark gallery
(I like the hand-added apostrophe: I can imagine someone making the sign.)
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Excellent resources --more images and information-- at the I AM A MAN exhibit:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman
It never signified for me, until now, that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his amazing last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop", [links to full text] in support of striking garbage collectors.
King said, "The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers." [boldface mine]
Photo ^ via Miami Herald ("Four Decades Later", 2008)I AM a Man. The underlining of what should be obvious... So horribly similar to today's "Black Lives Matter":
Photo ^ via pixhark gallery
(I like the hand-added apostrophe: I can imagine someone making the sign.)
_______________________
Excellent resources --more images and information-- at the I AM A MAN exhibit:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman
