Clayborn Temple, Memphis, TN, 1977

Creators

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Source Collection

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

Identifier

sc.0452.01.016_006.002

Description

Clayborn Temple sign, Memphis, March 4, 1977. Throughout the 1960s, Clayborn Temple became the city's staging ground for the civil rights movement, particularly the organizing headquarters of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike in 1968. In the 1970s the congregation reduced and the building fell into disrepair.

Date Created

7-1-2021

Date

1977 March 4

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Recommended Citation

"Clayborn Temple, Memphis, TN, 1977" (2021). Memphis. 73.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal4/73