Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

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

Identifier

sc.0475.90012_12.042

Description

National Guardsman with a M-14 rifle equipped with an infrared lens after reports of sniping in Memphis during the 1968 sanitation workers' strike.

Date Created

9-5-2021

Date

1968

Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis

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