Special Collections Finding Aids

Publication Date

9-30-2021

Abstract

The Memphis Search for Meaning Committee records document the strike in Memphis by the city's sanitation workers from February to April 1968, the activities of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis prior to his assassination, and the aftermath. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, documents, correspondence, ephemera, oral interviews, and film and videotape footage.

Source Collection

Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Keywords

African American labor union members -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Sources.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Press coverage -- Sources.; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination.; Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Sources.

Date

2024 September

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