Martin Luther Kind Jr. On The Minimum Wage

• We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
• Statement on minimum wage legislation, March 18, 1966 Source: Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition. Booklet prepared by the Southern Labor Institute under the auspices of the Labor Subcommittee of the King Holiday Commission, designed by the AFT and printed by AFSCME. January 1986.