Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson is a prominent progressive American activist and politician best known for being the co-founder of Memphis Community Against Pollution and as a member of the "Tennessee Three." He is a candidate for U.S. Congress. He tells the story of the historic labor strike in 1968 that would be Dr. Martin Luther King's final campaign.
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Excerpt of Martin Luther King’s Last Speech “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop,” 1968-04-03. © The King Estate.
Memphis Local 1733 picket. 1965-07. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
Memphis sanitation workers strike. 1968. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
National Guard, Memphis. 1968. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
Lorraine Motel by Bubba73. 20 October 2022. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Thank you, Representative Pearson.. Thank you, too, for your service to your constituents in Memphis — and good luck in your campaign in a former district that has now been gerrymandered by Tennessee republicans..
Thank you, Rep. Pearson, for being the voice of this consequential 250 highlighting the ongoing struggle of our nation to make a more perfect union as was promised by our Constitution.