Today In Labor History April 4, 1968: James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike that had started in February, 1968, for better working conditions and higher pay. The strike began 2 weeks after 2 workers were crushed to death when their truck malfunctioned, intensifying the already high level of frustration and anger over working conditions and safety. King led a protest march on March 28. Over 20,000 kids cut class to join the demonstration. Some members of the march began smashing downtown windows and looting. The cops intervened with mace, tear gas, clubs and live gunfire, killing 16-year-old Larry Paine, who had his hands in the air when he was shot. On April 3, one day before his assassination, King gave his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.

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4 aprile 1968: assassinato Martin Luter King – Osservatorio Repressione

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Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.

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Steve Berry: The Cotton Malone Series Vol. 1-14 (2006-2019)

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Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Kultur und Pop - Popkultur - Geniale Frauen - Anna Arnold Hedgeman

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Geniale Frauen Anna Arnold Hedgeman

3 Min. #Doku

Nach dem Marsch auf #Washington und der berühmten Rede von #MartinLutherKing wurde 1964 der Civil Rights Act erlassen. Doch es war Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990), die einzige Frau im Organisationskomitee, die die sechs Anführer der #Bürgerrechtsgruppen überzeugte, gemeinsam zu marschieren, die 30.000 weiße Teilnehmer einlud und dafür sorgte, dass auch #Frauen zu Wort kamen.

#Regie #JulieGavras
Mathieu Decarli
Olivier Marquézy

#Autorin #JulieGavras

Produktion Les Films du Bilboquet
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Land #Frankreich Jahr 2021

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#Bildungsfernsehen
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✒📜 Letter from #birminghamjail by Dr. #martinlutherking Jr.

I'm pinning this on my profile, as it is still very relevant, even though we are not in the 1960's #segregationist USA, during the #civilrightsmovement However, we are experiencing such a huge #backlash not only against presentd day #socialjustice claims, but also against those we thought had been granted for decades, that it can be an excellent read for political and #grassroots activists.
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https://letterfromjail.com/

SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “There Will Never Be Any Peace” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhi79SjPjzE

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