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Africana Library exhibit explores MLK's labor activism


April 30, 2021
The fight for worker’s rights and the struggle for racial justice march hand in hand. This message rings loud and clear in the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library exhibit “All Labor Has Dignity” highlighting Martin Luther King Jr.’s advocacy for Local 1199, the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, in the 1960s.
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Martin Luther King Jr. at the Local 1199 Salute to Freedom event
King’s work with health care workers is especially relevant today, according to Steven Calco, exhibit curator and research archivist at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Catherwood Library. ....

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