And so I think that we can't forget that a lot of those early civil rights leaders also weren't just identity focused. They were really driving for economic change. And MLK was killed when he was going and standing up for sanitation workers on a union drive. And I just think that that part of our history has partly been forgotten, but also, in my view, there are people with a lot of money and a lot of lobbying power that want to de. (11:59–12:07)
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Asserts that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while supporting sanitation workers' union efforts.
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