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Jane Berger

Jane Berger is an assistant professor of history at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. She is the author of “‘A Lot Closer to What It Ought to Be’: Black Women and Public Sector Employment in Baltimore, 1950–1970,” in Life and Labor in the New New South (2012), edited by Robert Zieger, and “Uncommon Schools: Institutionalizing Deafness in Early Nineteenth-Century America,” in Foucault and the Government of Disability (2005), edited by Shelley Tremain. She is currently completing a book on the historical causes of late 20th-century urban poverty in the United States. icon

Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

By Jane Berger

In 1968, municipal sanitation workers angered by poor wages and dangerous working conditions . . .

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