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MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
29 Jan 2019
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Dr Martin Luther King, who was killed supporting Memphis garbage workers, often noted that most Black people are working class, said labor historian Peter Cole. On the day after King’s assassination in 1968, the dockworkers union shut down port traffic on the west coast. King was an honorary member of the union, as was Paul Robeson, before him.

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