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Omaha Steve

(99,494 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2012, 10:52 AM Jan 2012

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Those Striking Sanitation Workers Were AFSCME, Just Like Omaha Steve

http://www.afscme.org/union/history/mlk

Photo Credit: Richard L. Copley

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to a packed room of supporters. The next day, he was assassinated.

Read the full “Mountaintop” speech
Pres. McEntee on King anniversary
Sec.-Treas. Saunders on the King memorial

Remembering Dr. King

In Memphis: A Special Report from the Southern Regional Council
1968 AFSCME Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike Chronology
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memphis Strikers Stand Firm (March, 1968)

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Those Striking Sanitation Workers Were AFSCME, Just Like Omaha Steve (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2012 OP

AFSME - Anti-American Freedom-hating Scumbag Communist Muslim Extremists. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #1

Love it! Omaha Steve Jan 2012 #2

My dad was the director of AFSCME District Council 1707 in New York latebloomer Jan 2012 #3

Hooray for AFSCME! xmas74 Jan 2012 #4

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

1. AFSME - Anti-American Freedom-hating Scumbag Communist Muslim Extremists.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 01:08 PM

Jan 2012

Wait, never mind - that was FOX.

Omaha Steve

(99,494 posts)

2. Love it!

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:32 PM

Jan 2012

latebloomer

(7,120 posts)

3. My dad was the director of AFSCME District Council 1707 in New York

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:40 PM

Jan 2012

He was an organizer all his life, and died in 1984.

I often wonder what he'd say about what's going on in our country today.

xmas74

(29,670 posts)

4. Hooray for AFSCME!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:43 PM

Jan 2012

I was a member many years ago.

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