In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo Baxter Leach speaks during a ceremony honoring two colleagues who were killed on the job in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn. King was fatally shot on a hotel balcony in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Close friends say a prominent member of the Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers union whose historic strike was supported by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has died. Baxter Leach was 79. Gail Tyree is executive director of Memphis Local 1733 chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. Tyree said she spoke with Leach's daughter, who said he died Tuesday, Aug. 27 2019. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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