The Nation - News from April 3, 1988

The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy will head a cadre of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest allies in a commemorative and workers’ rights march Monday from King’s grave site to the governor’s mansion in Atlanta. Georgia labor leaders said the throng will include many state workers disgruntled over low wages. The march will commemorate the 20th anniversary of King’s assassination April 4, 1968, at a motel in Memphis, Tenn., where he had traveled to support striking sanitation workers. “We feel that Dr. King died for public employees 20 years ago,” said Democratic state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, a march organizer. “We feel that we should be doing something . . . 20 years later.”