Fight for $15 movement plans fast-food workers' strike across south

"The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming up with the civil rights leader William Barber for a day of action in support of racial justice and voting rights.

On 12 February, hundreds of fast-food workers from around the south and across the US will converge on Memphis to march in honor of the 1968 strikers and to throw Fight for $15’s support behind a renewed Poor People’s Campaign, the movement King championed.

Barber and Theoharis plan to go to Memphis to join several sanitation workers who participated in the 1968 strike along with labor leaders, fast-food workers, civil rights activists, and others to retrace the steps of a famous march during the strike – from Clayborn Temple to Memphis City Hall. The next day, Barber plans to hold a demonstration in Marks, Mississippi – which was considered the poorest town in the nation’s poorest county – where King launched the Poor People’s campaign with mule-drawn wagons heading to Washington DC."