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Honoring the Life and Preserving the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
… representation as the clearest path out of poverty and into the middle class, and fought for the rights of all people to have good jobs and a voice at work. … In the Spring of 1968, those beliefs led King to Memphis, Tennessee, where 1,300 sanitation workers were on strike … to attack the rights of working people across this country today. We see it in aggressive efforts to establish statewide right to work laws in places such as Missouri, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. We see it in efforts to gut safety protections …