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Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike event

also: sanitation workers strike

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Claims (3)

Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
“The city of Memphis, Tennessee was in the middle of a sanitation workers strike. They were striking for better wages, safer working conditions, and the recognition of an actual union. You know, all of the things that the Democrats say they'…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 0:27
Echol Cole assassinated Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
“two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So the strikers adopted a slogan, I am.…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 2:28
Robert Walker assassinated Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted
“two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So the strikers adopted a slogan, I am.…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 2:28

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MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 0:27 The city of Memphis, Tennessee was in the middle of a sanitation workers strike. They were striking for better wages, safer working conditions, and the recognition of an actual union. You know, all of the things that the Democrats say they'…
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 1:27 Basically, just to give you the setting, in 1968, Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was about labor and civil rights. There was about 1,300 predominantly African American workers employed by the city's public works department. The mayor at …
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 2:28 two workers were killed and basically sucked into the back of a garbage truck and crushed. And that generated the strike. So the two workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were the two men killed. So the strikers adopted a slogan, I am.…