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The photograph shows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, and Bernard Lee exiting an airplane in Memphis. A white pilot stands behind the men, watching other passengers disembark. King and his fellow civil rights workers from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) were in Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. King planned to lead a peaceful demonstration, but was stopped by court injunction. That night, he gave a speech titled \"I've been to the mountain top\" at the Memphis Mason Temple. The following day, King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel.","The Memphis Sanitation Workers' strike began on February 11, 1968, following years of dangerous working conditions, discrimination, and the work-related deaths of two African American sanitation workers. Led by local clergy, community members engaged in boycotts, mass meetings, marches, and other civil disobedience in support of the strike. 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