When he was killed in 1968, he was planning a march of striking Memphis sanitation workers
[DOC] [TLE] Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968) [PAR] Sanitation workers, led by garbage-collector-turned-union-organizer, T. O. Jones, 
and ... Mayor Loeb rejected the Council's vote, however, insisting that only he 
had the ... King himself arrived on 18 March to address a crowd of about 25,000  
the ... shops were looted, and a 16-year-old was shot and killed by a policeman.