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we ll bring you more updates on msnbc as events develop. and now for today s other news. you know this picture, don t you? this is martin luther king jr. standing on the steps of the lincoln memorial in our nation s capitol, august 28th, 1963. his most famous speech, the one we call i have a dream. you probably, however, don t know this guy standing beside dr. king that day. that s walter reuther, in some ways the inventor of the modern lane american labor movement. here he is again marching that day. he became a union organizer in michigan in the sometimes difficult and sometimes violent strikes of 1936 and 37. at the time workers in the big auto plants were coming home sick and injured and exhausted. and no matter how long or how hard they worked, they were coming home broke too. the auto companies didn t want unions, but the workers struck and they struck hard, and the workers eventually won. on february 11th, 1937, gm signed its first contract with

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