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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.052B_002.006
Description
Police in riot gear along Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, on March 29, 1968. The W.C. Handy statue is in the foreground.
Date Created
6-23-2021
Date
1968 March 29
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"Beale Street, Memphis, during the sanitation workers' strike, March 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 12.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal2/12
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968., Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis.
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