Memphis man recounts teenage days aiding worker's strike during King’s last visit to the city • Iowa Capital Dispatch
- Calhoun, now 75, helped assemble signs for the sanitation workers' strike during Martin Luther King Jr.'s final visit to Memphis before his assassination on April 4, 1968.
- The deaths of two trash collectors in February 1968 led to the strike, as workers demanded better conditions and pay, stating they were treated 'more like animals than humans.'
- King's presence in Memphis drew national attention, and he delivered his last speech, 'I've Been to the Mountaintop,' before being assassinated.
- Calhoun later joined a Black Lives Matter march in 2020, stating, 'Everything I do is for my grandchildren.
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