Youth rally, Memphis City Hall, 1968

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Source Collection

Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Identifier

sc.0452.01.os005_021.011

Description

Around 200 student supporters of the striking sanitation workers gathered at City Hall, Memphis, Tennessee, to "bury justice" as symbolized by the casket in the photograph, March 6, 1968. The group had marched to City Hall from Clayborn Temple led by Rev. Harold Middlebrook of Greater Middle Baptist Church. Photographer: Jim Shearin.

Date Created

2021

Date

1968 March 6

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"Youth rally, Memphis City Hall, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 39.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal2/39