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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.90012_09.004
Description
A National Guardsman in action during the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike in 1968. Inscribed on the verso of the photograph: "Warrant officer Homer D. Gaines attempts to find sniper near Hernando and Beale."
Date Created
6-25-2021
Date
1968
Recommended Citation
"Searching for a sniper, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 164.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mpressscimitar2/164
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968., Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis
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