New York’s garbage strike helped inspire King’s last campaign

Evidence

Four days later, April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by a sniper in Memphis, where he had gone in support of striking sanitation workers partially inspired by New York’s February garbage strike. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1216

Categorization

• XREF: Material-conditions thread: solid-waste politics recur across the book (earlier garbage strike as scene-defining event) — a concrete causal chain from local material conditions to national history.