Rep. Cohen Issues Statement on Black History Month
February 04, 2020
February 04, 2020
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Stephen Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following statement on Feb. 3 regarding commemoration of Black History Month:
"We begin our February commemoration of Black History Month by remembering the loss of Memphis Sanitation Workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to avoid a downpour, sparking the 1968 strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to town to be felled by an assassin's bullet.
"We begin our February commemoration of Black History Month by remembering the loss of Memphis Sanitation Workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to avoid a downpour, sparking the 1968 strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to town to be felled by an assassin's bullet.