239A
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR.
Honor King: End
Racism!
Poster, 21
1
⁄
2
x 14 inches, printed in stark black letters on white cardstock; some
wear and discoloration; a small hole with a piece of string through it at the top center, for
hanging around the striker’s neck.
Memphis: Allied Printing, 1968
[4,000/6,000]
A RARE EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE SIGNS CARRIED BY MEMPHIS
’
S SANITATION WORK
-
ERS FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
.
Previously, strikers,
including King who had come to Memphis to add his support, wore placards that read “I AM
A MAN, and UNION JUSTICE NOW. All are very scarce today, most having been swept
up after the strike and destroyed. The present example came from a local Memphis sanitation
worker’s family.
