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.0475.0279a_04.001
Description
Band leader Ben Branch, one of the last people to see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive, talks with a policeman at the Lorraine Motel after King's murder, April 1968.
Date Created
10-15-2021
Date
1968-04
Recommended Citation
"Bandleader Ben Branch after Dr. King's assassination, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 143.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/143
Keywords
Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Branch, Ben; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968