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Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

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sc.0475.90012_06.029

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Jesse Turner, banker and president of the Memphis NAACP, speaks to striking sanitation workers on February 22, 1968.

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6-23-2021

Date

1968-02-22

Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968., Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis, Turner, Jesse, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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