The Miami Herald has a solid piece in its Sunday edition on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike. Forty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed at a Memphis hotel. The Miami Herald interviewed the sanitation workers whose strike brought King to Memphis. They remember the famous reverend’s final civil rights campaign as a march that turned into a violent maelstrom of hatred and righteous defiance.
This is a brilliant use of photographs with audio. I remember the King’s murder. A few years ago I visited the National Civil Rights Museum that is built on the spot of the Memphis hotel where a sniper shot Rev. King.