Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Honey Michael K

Author:Honey, Michael K. [Honey, Michael K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

You are reminding, not only Memphis, but you are reminding the nation that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. [applause] And I need not remind you that this is our plight as a people all over America. The vast majority of Negroes in our country are still perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. [applause] My friends, we are living as a people in a literal depression…. Now the problem is not only unemployment. Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working every day? [applause] And they are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of our nation. [“That’s right.”] These are facts which must be seen, and it is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income. [applause]

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