I found this picture of President Barack Obama meeting with surviving workers from the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike pretty moving:

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This was Martin Luther King Jr.‘s final protest prior to his assassination. The man in the White House owes his job in part to the men he shares this picture with.

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer