King Day Celebration Combines Civil Rights, Labor and Political Strength

by James Parks

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. told striking sanitation workers that we all are “tied together in a single garment of destiny.”

"If one black person suffers, if one black person is down, we’re all down. It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive slave wages."

With studies showing that a shocking 45 percent of African Americans who were born in the late 1960s into middle-class families have fallen into the bottom 20 percent of income, more than 600 union and civil rights activists are gathering in Memphis this week to reaffirm their commitment to making King's dream a reality.
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