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King and Meany Brought Civil Rights and Labor Together for a Legacy That Continues Today

Leave a Comment / Civil Rights / By max cyril

Beginning in 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and then-President George Meany of the AFL-CIO began a relationship that would help bring the labor and civil rights movements together with a combined focus on social and economic justice. Meany was an outspoken defender of individual freedom, and in March 1960, he emphasized the crucial link between the …

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Memphis MLK Day Actions to Support Locked-Out Kellogg’s Workers

Leave a Comment / Locked-Out Employees / By max cyril

More than 220 workers who have been locked out of their jobs at a Kellogg’s Memphis, Tenn., plant since October will be honored and supported as part of Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day actions in Memphis. Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) President David Durkee will march in the morning parade with a large group …

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