Martin Luther King Holiday and the Link to Labor and Civil Rights

The American Labor Studies Center explores the relationship between the labor and civil rights movements on its Web site

http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/z71aNBS1acB8/

The site includes King's speech to the AFL-CIO convention and video clips of other King speeches. There are also lessons in labor history and links to other Web sites that feature historic images and video clips highlighting the partnership between the labor and civil rights movements.

Connecting Unions and Civil Rights

I Have A Dream 

Images of Working Families in Historic Civil Rights Struggles

MLK Lesson Plan 

Martin Luther King Jr. ,seen above, standing at pulpit with leaders of AFSCME Local 1733, the Memphis sanitation workers' union, in 1968.