Time for recognition

Johnnie Mosley, Memphis

Four years ago, the U.S. Department of Labor inducted the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers, which included my deceased father, as a group into the Labor Hall of Fame.

These men inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and risked their lives and livelihoods for equality. But there is not a historical marker that identifies their names. Although there is a great exhibit in their honor at the National Civil Rights Museum, there is no Hall of Fame for these brave men who withstood police brutality, humiliation, segregation and discrimination.

The time is long overdue for City Hall or the National Civil Rights Museum to dedicate a Wall of Fame for the 1968 sanitation workers. Let us not forget that Dr. King tragically lost his life while helping them.