These are the best of men, and I will not shrink this image to fit into my website.

Martin Luther King, Jr. died 40 years ago today as he helped black sanitation workers in Memphis strike for fair wages, fair working conditions, dignity and human rights. The signs reading “I am a Man” became an iconic symbol of the cause for which Dr. King and many others died.

The photograph above was taken by Ernest Withers, a civil rights photographer who passed away in 2007.

rootwork the rootsblog memorializes Ernest Withers:

legendary memphis photographer and
chronicler of the civil rights movement

irascible elder in his legendary kufi
everytime i see him he ask about my mama

they were about the same age same era,
racemen and racewomen from the oldschool

baba withers did a lot of legendary photos
but i think the one that mean the most to me

was one of the garbage workers strike in 68
my first real campaign in the struggle

my mama had me and my sisters out there on
picketlines, sitins and such since we was old enuf

to wear a sign

but it was the garbage workers strike and the
subsequent death of martin luther king that

turn me out
made me a conscious warrior

Sanitationstrikewhithersthe iconic sign of that struggle
was the garbagemens ‘i am a man’ picketsigns

and baba withers he got this shot of the garbage workers
with their i am a man signs straddling the street

move me to this day

baba ernest withers
1922 - 2007 - well done

in struggle
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Jesus found the boy wandering the road and returned to the van to help his mother, who was pinned inside the van. He couldn’t pull her out and she perished.

Jesus stayed with her son until help arrived the next day, even though it meant sacrificing his own freedom.

Thank you, Jesus! I am inspired by your good heart and sacrifice. We all have something to learn from you.

“He stayed with him, told him that everything was going to be all right,” [Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada] said.

As temperatures dropped, he gave him a jacket, built a bonfire and stayed with him until about 8 a.m. Friday, when hunters passed by and called authorities, Estrada said. The boy was flown to University Medical Center in Tucson as a precaution but appeared unhurt.

Cordova was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents, who were the first to respond to the call for help. He had been trying to walk into the U.S. when he came across the boy.

The boy and his mother were in the area camping, Estrada said. The woman’s husband, the boy’s father, had died only two months ago. The names of the woman and her son were not being released until relatives were notified.

Cordova likely saved the boy, Estrada said, and his actions should remind people not to quickly characterize illegal immigrants as criminals.

-from Illegal immigrant rescues boy whose mother died in Ariz. crash, azcentral.com