(30615) National Urban League's Equal Opportunity Day Award banquet

Posted August 23rd, 2013 by jruss

AFSCME
AFSCME and Racial Equality
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
National Urban League
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Wurf, Jerry, 1919-
Young, Whitney M.

AFSCME President Jerry Wurf (left) and National Urban League President Whitney Young (right) applaud U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (second from right) at the 1968 National Urban League's Equal Opportunity Day Award banquet in New York City. AFSCME received the award for its role in the successful 1968 sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis during which Martin Luther King was assassinated.