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The city of Memphis.
The city of Memphis.
In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by African American sanitation workers who were protesting for better wages and working conditions. The strike was part of a broader movement for civil rights and economic justice. King's involvement aimed to highlight the struggles of low-wage workers and to advocate for their rights. Tragically, he was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while there to support the workers.
Martin Luther King Jr. or MLK, went to Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968. He went there to support a strike of sanitation workers. But, that was the last of him. Some days later he was shot dead on the baconly of his hotel room.King went to Memphis to support a strike of sanitation workers but was later shot while standing on a motel balcony.
workers strike because they did not get what they wanted
Other workers went on strike in support.
He went to Memphis to support a strike of sanitation workers.
In 1919 after WWI when the government was less willing to cooperate with workers four million workers went on strike.
Ulster Workers' Council strike happened on 1974-05-28.
The 1920 Alabama coal strike, or the Alabama Miners' Strike, was a statewide strike of the United Mine Workers of America against coal mine operators.