In remembrance and protest // Fast food workers show their support for higher wages and union rights during a lunch hour protest Monday on West Broad Street near the Boulevard in Richmond, marking the 50th anniversary of the historic Memphis sanitation workers strike. On Feb. 12, 1968, hundreds of African-American sanitation workers went on strike to decry harsh working conditions and to demand a raise to $2 an hour. Their action, triggered by the deaths of two men on the job, prompted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to travel to Memphis twice in support of the strikers. His last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” was delivered there on April 3, 1968; he was assassinated the next day. On Monday, protests were
