(Bang) Union marchers in Memphis honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (my union AFSCME)

[Omaha Steve]

Almost to the minute 40 years ago, Dr. King lost his life helping the downtrodden. I've been an AFSCME dues paying member for ten years. I've come to learn a lot in the last ten years I didn't understand about this man. Dr. King, your work goes on. You are missed. Thank you.

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Published Friday | April 4, 2008
Union marchers in Memphis honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was remembered Friday in the city where he died as a man who came to Memphis "to lead us to a better way."


The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.


Presidential candidates, civil rights leaders, labor activists and thousands of citizens were coming together to honor King for his devotion to racial equality and economic justice.

King was cut down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, while helping organize a strike by Memphis sanitation workers, then some of the poorest of the city's working poor.

Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represented the workers then and now, marched Friday from their downtown headquarters to the motel.

A line of several hundred people carrying umbrellas in a steady rain set off on the mile-long route.

"Dr. King was like Moses," said Leslie Moore, a 61-year-old sanitation worker who began working for the city in 1968. "God gave Moses the assignment to lead the children of Israel across the Red Sea. He sent Dr. King here to lead us to a better way."

As the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a former King associate, said earlier: "Here was a man who understood nonviolence at a depth that I had never known before."

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