Posted on Mar 28, 2018
The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King's Last Cause For Economic Justice
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It was a call for help from activists that took the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in March 1968. Days later he would be fatally shot by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
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The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King's Last Cause For Economic Justice
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Memphis
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I got transferred to NAS Memphis in 72; to the people of Memphis this was still fresh in their minds.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
I was on board USS Mahan at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard when we go the news. It is a very sad day in American history. Unfortunately, a lot of the same issues still exist.
I was on board USS Mahan at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard when we go the news. It is a very sad day in American history. Unfortunately, a lot of the same issues still exist.
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SCPO Morris Ramsey
PO2 Peter Klein I was on the USS McKean down at pier 15 almost at the end of the mole.
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