A RELIC OF A TRAGIC EVENT (CIVIL RIGHTS.) KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR. HONOR KING: END RACISM. Powerful black and white placard, 21-1/2 x 14 inches; a diagonal piece missing from the bottom left corner; the white surface evenly darkened; a hole at the top where a string was placed to be worn. Memphis, 1968
In April of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, to give his personal support to the striking sanitation workers of that city. While marching with them, their placards read, I AM A MAN. King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray on the 4th. In the subsequent sanitation worker marches, placards reading UNION JUSTICE NOW and HONOR KING, END RACISM were worn. All are quite scarce.
