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In early on 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation personnel in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted a protracted attack by that city's segregated pressure of trash collectors. Workers desired union protection, higher wages, advanced safe practices, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the bigger civil rights movement and drew an extraordinary array of countrywide movement market leaders to Memphis, including, on several occasion, Dr. Martin Luther Ruler, Jr. Ruler added his voice to the have difficulties in what became the ultimate conversation of his life. His assassination in Memphis on April 4 not only sparked protests and violence throughout America; it helped pressure the approval of worker needs in Memphis. The sanitation attack ended eight times after King's loss of life. The connection between your Memphis sanitation attack and King's loss of life hasn't received the emphasis it deserves, especially for younger viewers. "Marching to the Mountaintop "explores how the multimedia, politics, the Civil Privileges Movement, and labor protests all converged to create the scene for just one of King's greatest speeches and for his tragic loss of life.
