
State Rep. La Shawn Ford and Rev. Ira Acree stands with Streets and Sanitation workers and other speakers last Wednesday, during a wreath laying ceremony in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. outside of the Austin Health Center on Cicero and Chicago Avenues. | Photo by ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Rev. Ira Acree talks about the civil rights movement how he considers MLK to be a modern-day Moses last Wednesday, during a wreath laying ceremony in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. outside of the Austin Health Center on Cicero and Chicago Avenues. | Photo by ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
An April 4 wreath-laying ceremony in front of a statue of King outside of the Westside Health Authority’s Austin headquarters. The city workers were reminiscent of the Memphis sanitation workers whose 1968 strike brought King to that city. Not long before a planned march in support of the workers, he was killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.