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Seen in chicago. >> keep moving. >> shaken but undeterred, king returned south. he arrived in memphis, tennessee in march 1968 to show support for striking sanitation workers. >> a lot of kings advisors told him, dont go to memphis. its going to take away from your message, its going to take away from your planning, but king insists. were here to help garbage workers. these are the exact types of people were supposed to be helping. >> april 4th, 1968, martin luther king, jr., stepped out of room...

In washington, d.c., honor the garbage workers. those are the ones that martin luther king went to memphis to fight on behalf of, asme members, and he was killed while there, standing up for them. then well fly back to harlem for our annual national network forum and 4:00 to go times square to protest the ugly racist words of this president. why? because spend dr. kings day doing dr. king things. if i came to your birthday, id eat what you like, id play the music you like. i would not make your ...

As part of the mlk day in atlanta with the king family, and ive been very honored to be invited to be there. but the other point that i would make, al, is you know, obviously, that when dr. king was assassinated, he was in memphis, tennessee, standing up for some of the most exploited workers in the country. these were garbage workers in memphis. >> right. >> and in the last months of his life, what he was working on was a poor peoples march on washington of blacks and whites and native american...

Funeral for officer liu this beak. will they be turning their backs on the mayor? >> i hope not. i cant judge what they do. its an intense difficult job. i dont think you are going to see that happening in large numbers, but that didnt happen last weekend either. one group and a few and others following their lead. the tone will be respectful and appropriate for a wake on saturday and a funeral sunday. >> there is an element of surprise on this. in a situation where the mayor is the commander if...

Rights protesters on what would become known as bloody sunday. ray could not explain that stopover, even to his lawyer, arthur haines jr. >> typical ray, evasion, i was just passing through and i stayed there. nothing. >> from selma ray went on to atlanta, staying at a cheap boardinghouse near downtown. later the fbi would find in his room a city map with circles drawn around the ebenezer baptist church where martin luther king preached and around the neighborhood where he lived. on thursday, ma...

Welcome back to "the ed show." our first question comes from april thompson. president barack obamas support of tpp is reverse psychology? maybe this is his way if he takes a stance for the tpp, it will motivate a lot of people to stand up and speak about it. pretty serious issue to take on to think that would be a good way to get it done, but i hope youre correct on that. what would dr. king say about the climate of union busting today? he would be totally against it. he was in memphis, tenness...

Platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. im also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. he was helping tennessee garbage workers when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember i was back in the those days. i left georgia for college and the navy. when i came home from submarine duty, i was put on the board of educat...

>> the sermon was march 17th. king flew east to memphis to speak the next day to striking garbage workers. that same day james earl ray filled out this change of address card, and he, too, left los angeles, driving east. the new address he listed was kings home city of atlanta. ahead, for both men, a date with murder. coming up, the fbi. dirty minds and dirty tricks. >> someone was left in the room and was recorded in the act of sexual intercourse, and they assumed it was dr. king. welcnew yor...

Troopers had attacked civil rights protesters on what would become known as bloody sunday. ray could not explain that stopover, even to his lawyer, arthur haines jr. >> typical ray, evasion, i was just passing through and i stayed there. nothing. >> from selma ray went on to atlanta, staying at a cheap boardinghouse near downtown. later the fbi would find in his room a city map with circles drawn around the ebenezer baptist church where martin luther king preached and around the neighborhood whe...

Convention, then delivering a sunday church sermon. ray would later write this. >> i wouldnt say i hated king. i do think most preachers are a little phony, but i wouldnt consider shooting them. >> the sermon was march 17th. king flew east to memphis to speak the next day to striking garbage workers. that same day james earl ray filled out this change of address card, and he, too, left los angeles, driving east. the new address he listed was kings home city of atlanta. ahead, for both men, a dat...