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Memphis Is Also America
Watters, Pat | April 22, 1968 issue

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Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. worked and died represents America. Its racial crisis of 1968 and its murderous failure were those of all America. King, went there during the fifth week of a garbage workers' strike that had built into a civil rights movement and a dangerous crisis. The issues of the strike were broadened to a protest against general conditions for Negroes, not unlike those cities across the land-police brutality, unfit housing, lack of jobs, low wages, discrimination in schools. These, as King later noted, were the new national issues of Negro protest, economic at base, the focal point of the Poor People's Campaign. But the main issue in Memphis was dignity.

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STRIKES & lockouts; CIVIL rights; ETHNIC groups; HUMAN rights; MEMPHIS (Tenn.); TENNESSEE; UNITED States
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