Utah Jazz 27/07
Why the Utah Jazz will replace the names on the backs of their jerseys with messages of social justice | Utah Jazz
Rain flooded the streets of Memphis on Feb. 1, 1968, a deluge that would alter history. Forced to work in the downpour that day, two sanitation workers, black men named Echol Cole and Robert Walker, sought shelter in the back of a garbage truck and were crushed when an electrical switch malfunctioned. That same day, nearly two dozen black sewer workers were sent home without pay while their white supervisors stayed on the clock.