Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

Tom Barber

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

Identifier

sc.0475.90012_04.011

Description

Memphis civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson (left), Southern Christian Leadership Conference associate Andrew Young (second left), and Memphis attorneys (left to right) Lucius Burch, Charles Newman, and Mike Cody in the Federal Courthouse in Memphis on April 4, 1968 during the sanitation workers' strike.

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6-6-2021

Date

1968-04-04

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Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Lawson, James M., 1928-; Burch, Lucius E., Jr.; Young, Andrew, 1932-; Newman, Charles; Cody, Mike

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