Low-wage workers from three southern states marched and rallied in Memphis on Monday, the final stop made by the revived Poor People’s Campaign before it converges in Washington, D.C. next month. The Mid-South Mobilization Committee, comprised of working people from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, led the demonstration, which can be viewed in full here. The march ended at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. “For 50 years, we’ve been talking about what [King] did, but nobody picked it up. It’s been 54 years since the sanitation worker’s march, and right here in Memphis, they still don’t have union rights,” said Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
— source commondreams.org | May 24, 2022