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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 28 March 1977, over 1,300 overwhelmingly black sanitation workers in Atlanta walked off the job for a 50 cent an hour pay increase. The city’s first black mayor, who had come to power on the back of the civil rights...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 28 March 1977, over 1,300 overwhelmingly black sanitation workers in Atlanta walked off the job for a 50 cent an hour pay increase. The city’s first black mayor, who had come to power on the back of the civil rights and black power movements and to whom the workers looked for support, sacked them all, with the support of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Sr. It was an early lesson that having representatives of colour doesn’t necessarily benefit working class people of colour. This is an account of the struggle: https://ift.tt/2iY9CZq
Pictured: Modibo Kadalie, one of the strikers more recently https://ift.tt/2WynApp

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