Speech
Trumka to the 2020 Summit for Civil Rights: We Are Moral Visions and Legacies
… Good afternoon. Thank you to the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law School, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Journal of Law … movement for racial and economic justice that is on the verge of sweeping across America. Many of you know I first went to work in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. I’m a proud member of the United Mine Workers of America. In 1890, at our … how the past shapes the present. That’s what confronting structural racism requires. We have a moral obligation to get it right. To make Dr. King’s dream our future. To live for the causes John Lewis marched for. To win a better day. Change is …