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_07.001

Description

Picketers on Main Street, Memphis, during the 1968 sanitation workers strike. Some of the signs read "Jim Crow Must Go!", and "Dignity and Decency for Our Sanitation Workers".

Date Created

9-14-2021

Date

1968

Keywords

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

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