Michael K. Honey: Economic Inequality through King’s Eyes
WHEN MEMPHIS SANITATION WORKERS WENT ON STRIKE IN 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. knew they had a lesson to teach America. “You are reminding the nation,” he told attendees at a March 1968 rally there, “that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages … working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income.”
Economic justice was not new to his agenda. Today,
