The Nation: Nothing Would Be More Tragic Than to Turn Back Now
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. King went to Memphis to stand in solidarity with striking members of AFSCME Local 1733. In a 2019 interview with the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, Dr. Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, recalled, "Dr. King said that the union movement and poor people all had to come together. Unions have been tremendous. So to be in the in the union movement and to be aligned with the Poor People’s Campaign is one and the same.”
This Martin Luther King Day, we should remember that when we stand up and fight back, the seemingly indomitable giants of white supremacy can come down.
By THE REV. DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II
In his last sermon, on the evening before he was shot down outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offered a conclusion that serves well as starting point for 2018. After declaring that America was sick in 1968, facing troubling times, King made this resolution: