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To sit at a lunch counter if you can t afford to buy a hamburger, he says. and remember, in march 1968 mlk was assassinated in memphis and he was in memphis to support sanitation workers who are on strike for better pay and conditions. are his poor peoples campaign. and one white marathons telling negro to lift himself up by his own boot straps, they don t look over and see the legacy of slavery and segregation. i believe we do all we can and seek to list our selves up by our boot straps but it is a cruel just to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift him self up by his own boot straps. many negroes by the thousands of millions have been left ....