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Workers mark 40th anniversary of King's Memphis slaying
White haired sanitation veterans led a Friday march to the Lorraine Motel marking 40 years since Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Civil rights leaders, AFSCME members and diverse crowds recalled his legacy and the Memphis sanitation strike that helped end white-dominated governance.
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Memphis
Tenn
Sanitation Workers
Martin Luther King Jr
Dr. King
Moses
Leslie Moore
Children of Israel
Red Sea
Afscme
Public Employees Union
Lorraine Motel
Sheri Commodore
Baltimore
Baxter Leach
Leach
King
Joe Beavers
Cassandra Franklin
Nashville
Alex
America
James Earl Ray
Ray
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barack Obama
John McCain
Martin
C.T. Vivian
Selma
Ala
Obama
Indiana
Ethel Kennedy
Coretta Scott King
Bush
Mary Altaffer
Sen
R-Ariz
Lorraine