Across the United States, working people honored the sacrifices of two Memphis sanitation workers whose deaths triggered the historic 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death on the job. Their deaths led to a walkout by 1,300 fellow sanitation workers. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Memphis several times in 1968 to support their fight, and paid for his support with his own life on April 4, 1968. Below are photos from events in the following jurisdictions: District of Columbia, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.
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