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On April 4th 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was organizing the “Poor People’s Campaign before his deat,h as he was in Memphis supporting the striking sanitation workers. This past weekend, April 5th more than 1,400 protests, some with over 100,000 people in cities like NY, Chicago, California, and Washington DC., were held over the nation as reported by Rachel Maddox on MSNBC. Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the Street as part of the “Hands Off” movement. They protested against the new federal Tarrifs, possible cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, illegal deportations, cuts to many federal programs and offices, unfair firing and hiring policies, Abortion rights, LGBTQ righs, etc.
April Ryan of NNPA reported that the media panel at the National Action Network Convention held in NY last week asked: “What would Martin do?” asked Mary Francis Berry, the former head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Berry was a college student when the news reports were delivered that Dr King was assassinated.
…..Berry remembers consulting with Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, and wondering what the civil rights icon would do whenever they started a protest like the “Free South Africa” movement and protests against the “unfair treatment of Haitians” and the “LGBTQ+ people and whatever.” The “checklist” of items to confirm this is what Dr. King would support is included in his book Where Do We Go From Here? The questions are: “Is it safe? Is it political? Is it popular? Is it right?”
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