MARTIN AND THE MOUNTAINTOP THE SANITATION STRIKE OF 1968 Alice Faye Duncan Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie CALKINS CREEK AN IMPRINT OF BOYDS MILLS KANE New York
This story was mined from history books and the memories of a Memphis teacher When she was a child she marched in the Memphis sanitation strike with her mother and father Men women and children contributed to the strike in 1968. Whole families sacrificed their comforts They suffered for the cause However Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paid the highest cost He gave his life to the struggle for freedom and justice
