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Demands for safer working conditions, fair wages drew Martin Luther King to Memphis

cmonforton | January 21, 2013

We commemorate today the life of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the inspirational civil rights leader who was assassinated at age 39 in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. Rev. King was visiting Memphis to support hundreds of city sanitation workers in their demands for safer working conditions and dignity on the job. Martin Luther King Jr. In an interview taped for the StoryCorps project, Mr. Elmore Nickelberry and Mr. Taylor Rogers describe their experience as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968. Taylor Rogers: "Our day was awful. Everyday. We had these tubs that we had to put the…

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