During the AFL-CIO's 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance in Memphis, Tenn., more than 1,300 union members and allies focused on strategies to make King's dream of economic equality a reality through political action, organizing and education. Activists spent hours in get-out-the-vote training and rallied for workers' freedom to form a union. The highlight of the conference came when veterans of the 1968 sanitation workers' strike remembered the brave workers who took a stand for dignity in the campaign that ultimately cost King his life.

• Video: Participants in the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance discuss King's dream.
• Video: Highlights from King's 1968 support for the sanitation strike.
• Read what veterans of the Memphis sanitation strike say about that struggle.
• Find out how King Day participants contributed to the Memphis community.
• Learn why Martin Luther King Jr. was both a trade unionist and a visionary leader.
• See why King's struggle for justice is as relevant today as it was 40 years ago.
• Download the Report of the Special Committee on Diversity to the AFL-CIO Executive Council (PDF).

For more information, please contact the AFL-CIO Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department at: 202-637-5274.

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