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Remembering Memphis
… workers that drew support from civil and labor rights leaders across the nation. Martin Luther King Jr., in town to organize a march in support of those strikers, was assassinated on April 4 of that year. This post commemorates these anniversaries and the historic links between civil rights and workers' rights, especially at a time when the right of public-sector workers to unionize is being argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This post is excerpted from a … nexus of the promise of the civil rights movement and the American labor movement; a logical co-mingling of race and work in the context of a democratic nation. At the 1961 AFL-CIO Convention, King warned that black people should be skeptical …