Jack Walker is a union man. He drives a garbage truck in Memphis, where his route can take him barreling past shotgun-style houses along the Mississippi River and down the narrow alleyways near the Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Robert Walker, Mr. Walker’s father, was also a sanitation worker. The tragedy was a culmination of slow-burning indignities for Black sanitation workers in Memphis. Roughly 1,300 sanitation workers began marching through the streets of Memphis.

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Persons: Jack Walker, Martin Luther King Jr, King’s, Robert Walker, Walker’s, Echol Cole, Robert Walker’s, Jack, wouldn’t Organizations: The New York Times Locations: Memphis, Mississippi