Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

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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

Keywords

Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Branch, Ben; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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