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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.052B_002.038
Description
National Guardsmen in armored personnel carriers on Main Street in Memphis in April 1968 during the sanitation workers' strike. The Hotel Chisca stands in the background.
Date Created
6-23-2021
Date
1968 April
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"National Guard troops on Main Street, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 4.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal2/4
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968., Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis.
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