KGNU Labor Exchange - Bonus MLK Jr. holiday conversation with Adrian Rodgers AFSCME Local 1733

from The Labor Exchange on KGNU · host Robert Lindgren

On this bonus episode of the KGNU Labor Exchange we talk to Adrian Rogers, President of AFSCME Local 1733 in Memphis Tennessee. The local famously gained union recognition in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike which was the for civil rights and union rights for Memphis City Workers. It was during his support for this strike that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave his final speech titled I’ve Been to the Mountaintop and was assassinated soon after.

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