Video: 'Eyes On The Prize - (Part 10) The Promised Land 1967–1968' (Mar. 18, 1968, at 26:10)

(Monday, March 18, 1968, after 9:00 p.m. CST; during the Memphis sanitation strike, part of the African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968)) — Civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in the midst of organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, flew into Memphis today to call for a citywide march in support of striking sanitation workers.

King told a rally attended by 25,000 people at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple that “it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.”

The march, scheduled for Mar. 22, 1968, would be postponed to Mar. 28, 1968, due to a record snowstorm.

Video: 'I Am A Man: Dr. King & the Memphis Sanitation Strike' (Mar. 18, 1968, at 4:40)