Many things are different today in 2018, than they were in the year 1968; the price of coke and gas, the rights of women and of course, the act of wrongful dispensation in the Negro community. On February 1st, 1968. Two Memphis garbage collectors Echol Cole and Robert Walker were devastatingly crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. This situation was the last straw for the black community because of a long pattern of neglect and abuse of the employees of the Memphis Department of Public Works. As a result, 1300 men went on strike to make a difference and stand up for what they believed in. Three months later in April, the night before his assassination. Dr Martin Luther King stood before a group of sanitation workers. He spoke these words, “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through.” King believed the struggle in Memphis exposed the need for economic equality and social justice, which eventually after a long road; the sanitation workers received. The importance of the sanitation workers strike was that they stood up for what they believed in and finally …show more content…
As an American who supports the citizens involved; I admire the tenacity of these people. Dr. Martin Luther King said in the speech “ I've been to the mountaintop” “We mean business now and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God’s world. That's all this is. We aren't engaged in any negative protests or any arguments with anybody. We are saying we are determined to be men, determined to be people.” Though King was not alive to see it, after 2500 speeches and 8 peaceful protests. The death of Martin Luther King ended the Civil Rights Movement, and they all got what they travailed for. Overall that way