Decades after MLK death, Memphis jobs in spotlight




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Summary: MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) , Decades after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death here, some of the striking sanitation workers who marched with him are again fighting for their jobs. In 1968, wages were so low that some workers had to stand in welfare lines to feed their families. Working conditions were so dangerous men were dying on the job.