Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968
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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.90012_03.004
Description
Memphis COME (Community on the Move for Equality) leader Rev. James Lawson on a sidewalk with a picket sign that reads "King Henry we will not turn back" on February 26, 1968, during the sanitation workers' strike.
Date Created
9-4-2021
Date
1968-02-26
Recommended Citation
"Rev. James Lawson with picket sign, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 102.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/102
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Lawson, James M., 1928-