In the unusually cold spring of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent several weeks shuttling between the Sanitation Workers\' Strike in Memphis and his home in Atlanta. Memphis\' black sanitation workers had walked out in February demanding union recognition and the same benefits as whites. The city\'s only offer to their demands thus far had consisted of paternalism, condescension, and silence at the bargaining table. There would be no municipal workers\' union in Memphis while Henry Loeb, who was avidly anti-union, was mayor. Despite months of peaceful protest and, finally, a violent confrontation that left one dead, scores injured, and hundreds jailed, both camps remained convinced that theirs was the truly just cause.