"These clean sweepers don't know how to do their job correctly. Leaving the whole trail of filth behind. Unbelievable!😡" Video by Jamie Smith. | New Bedford Guide

I was a young boy when I heard this "Street Sweeper" speech by Dr. Martin King Jr. It is a lesser known speech than his more well known "I have a Dream Speech". “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” When I heard it I was working as

Who knew a clip about street cleaning would be one of our #mostwatched clips of 2021? This Tomorrow's World segment pitted Charlie the street sweeper against the machine poised to replace him, in 1975. #BBCArchiveRecap | BBC Archive