Civil Rights & Labor Rights

The legacy of Martin Luther King

Images of Working Families in Historic Civil Rights Struggles:
This web page was developed by the national AFL-CIO and does a good job of explaining the linkage between the civil rights movement as championed by Reverned King and the working families that make up the labor movement.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)

Martin Luther King's Address to the Fourth Constitutional Convention (1961) of the AFL-CIO - a Powerful Speech

"I Am A Man," Special Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike Exhibit Presented by the Reuther Library

For More Information on Martin Luther King and His Committment to Social and Economic Justice, Visit the Web Sites Below:

The King Center

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Poject at Stanford University