April 4, 2011, will mark the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, death in 1968 and the birth of a new civil rights movement. Unions will be joined in a day of action by student, faith, civil rights and human rights groups. In anticipation of the event, we talked about the current War on Workers with a leader in the Memphis sanitation workers' strike of 1968: Alvin Turner.
Alvin Turner started working for the City of Memphis at age 16 and often held two jobs just to get by. In 1968, Turner was 34 years old and married with four children. Now 76, a scar he still bears on his head reminds him of being clubbed by a Memphis police officer during the
