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MLK felt that the needs of African Americans were the same. At the 1961 AFL-CIO Convention, MLK shared the quote above.
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MLK made this statement in Memphis, TN in 1968. Sanitation Workers there sought his assistance in gaining better working conditions and pay for its black workers.
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In honor of Rosa Parks birthday, I’m reposting, 10 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDNT KNOW ABOUT ROSA PARKS. She was truly a phenomenal woman! Many focus on her actions that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But she was an activist long before that! She traveled the south on behalf of the NAACP investigating sexual assaults of black women.
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Source: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Rosa Parks!
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Martin Luther King Jr’s legal name at birth was Michael King, Jr. He was named after his father, Michael King, Sr. Michael King, Sr. decided to change names in 1934 after attending a religious conference in Germany. He changed both of their names to Martin Luther because of the admiration he developed for the German religious reformer, Martin Luther.
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