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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.os005_021.004
Description
Looters at Third and Beale Streets, Memphis, Tennessee, on March 29, 1968. Photographer: Bob Williams.
A group of youths had left the march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Main Street in support of striking sanitation workers and began breaking windows and looting stores.
Date Created
2021
Date
1968 March 29
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"Looters in Memphis, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 8.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal2/8
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
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