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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 king's advisors told him, don't go to memphis. it's going to take away from your message, it's going to take away from your planning, but king insists. we're here to help garbage workers. these are the exact types of people we're supposed to be helping. >> april 4th, 1968, martin luther king, jr., stepped out of room 306 onto the balcony of the lorraine motel. he told his young aide jesse jackson to put on a ...

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 we'll 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. king's day doing dr. king things. if i came to your birthday, i'd eat what you like, i'd play the music you like. i would not make your birthday in my own habits and feelings. i've been in this all my life, so it's personal to me. i...

As part of the mlk day in atlanta with the king family, and i've 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 people's march on washington of blacks and whites and native americans and latinos. >> yep. >> to demand a change in national priorities, rather than giving tax breaks...

Funeral for officer liu this beak. will they be turning their backs on the mayor? >> i hope not. i can't judge what they do. it's an intense difficult job. i don't think you are going to see that happening in large numbers, but that didn't 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 you will, of the police force, there is this growing descent among the force he is meant to con...

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, march 28th, reverend king returned to memphis for a massive protest in support of the garbage workers....