Opinion: Without Dr. King, the 1968 sanitation strike might have been a footnote
The names of sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 are engraved on a wall inside the I Am A Man Plaza next to Clayborn Temple. (Daily Memphian file)
“I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I Am A Man Plaza 1968 Sanitation Strike COVIDJohnnie Mosley
Johnnie Mosley is a native Memphian and founder of Citizens For Better Service. He is the son of John C. White, a Memphis sanitation worker for five decades.