Jerry Wurf

May 18, 1919 - Dec 10, 1981

Jerome Wurf was a U.S. labor leader and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees from 1964 to 1981. Wurf was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr., and was arrested multiple times for his activism, notably during the Memphis sanitation strike. He was present for King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" oratory at the strike, the day before King was assassinated, and attended King's funeral.
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