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Martin Luther King's Last Speech - "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. American Rhetoric - Top 100 Speeches
45 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968 - the day before he was assassinated.

Mother Jones, Workers Resistance, and the Origins of Rank-and-File Unionism

Rosemary Feurer UE News
March 8 is International Women's Day, launched a century ago by the international workers' movement. To mark the occasion, the UE NEWS asked labor historian Rosemary Feurer to write about the legendary labor organizer Mother Jones. When Mother Jones was mocked as the "grandmother of all agitators," in the U.S. Senate, Mother Jones replied that she would someday like to be called "the great-grandmother of all agitators."
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