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Sanitation Workers Strike

View of demonstrators outside the Hotel Claridge where, in the wake of the assassination of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, stalled talks between the striking sanitation union and city officials were resumed, Memphis, Tennessee, April 6, 1968. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream

Lee A. Saunders
OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...
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Death of Florida A&M drum major ruled a homicide

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The state medical examiner's office has ruled that the death of a Florida A&M University drum major last month was a homicide after concluding that the student was severely beaten in a hazing incident and died within an hour...
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