DC Commemorates 1968 Deaths of African-American Sanitation Workers, MLK

Fifty years ago, the deaths of two sanitation workers in Memphis sparked a strike among fellow black workers. The strike is what drew Martin Luther King Jr. to the city where he would be shot and killed. “He lost his life fighting for trash collectors,” Maurice Queen said. Queen started working as a sanitation worker in D.C. months after MLK’s death. Mark Segraves reports.