Sentences with phrase «striking sanitation workers»

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis, Tennessee to support striking sanitation workers.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Mei - Ling Ho - Shing spoke Tuesday at a conference at Mason Temple where King delivered his «I've Been to the Mountaintop» speech supporting striking sanitation workers on the day before his assassination.

And yesterday, unions held rallies across the country in an attempt to channel Martin Luther King who died 43 years ago in Memphis while supporting striking sanitation workers.

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a mass meeting at the Mason Temple in support of striking sanitation workers.

«Airport workers have had enough and are continuing to stand up for themselves in the spirit of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, «We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,»» said Councilmember Andy King.

Not exact matches

Fast - food workers striking across the mid-south today were joined by workers from the 1968 sanitation strike, connecting the important historic action 50 years ago to today's walk out.

San Diego Fast - Food Workers to Join Nationwide Protests on 50th Anniversary of Historic Memphis Sanitation Strike Times of San Diego Debbie L. Sklar Feb. 9, 2018

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

A city sanitation worker was struck by a car and killed yesterday while crossing the street in Castle Hill.

Fifty years ago this month, black sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike to fight for their right to safe working conditions and for pay that was equal to their white counterparts.

Ligon has also lifted quotes, jokes, and poems from Ralph Ellison, Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Ernest C. Withers's indelible photograph of a 1968 strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in which each carries a sign reading «i am a man.»

Published during a moment of political upheaval and dissent against resurgent fascism in the United States, Bordowitz's book inserts Untitled (I Am a Man) into a history that includes the African - American sanitation workers» strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech «Ain't I A Woman?»

Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007, In Front of Clayborn Temple, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, March 28, 1968, Gelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation 2005.3.32 © Withers Family Trust

Among his most famous images are those documenting the 1968 sanitation workers» strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

WITHERS, Ernest I Am A Man,» Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, 1968 11 x 14 inches Gelatin silver print; printed later

Ligon took the text and poster format from twenty years earlier, from striking black sanitation workers in Memphis.

Untitled (I Am a Man) is a reinterpretation of the signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 and made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march.

A reinterpretation of the actual signs that were carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, and which were made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march, this small, roughly made painting combines layers of history, meaning, and physical material in a dense, resonant object.

Alluding to the 1968 strike in which Memphis Sanitation workers held signs asserting their dignity and humanity in the face of discrimination and oppression, he called his painting of Jay Z, «I Am a Man.»

And when you multiply that by the hundreds of millions of people currently living in this unsustainable manner, it all adds up to a major issue - and one that is often only seen if sanitation and waste workers go on strike, leaving the trash on the curb instead of taking it out of sight and out of mind.