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_06.049

Description

Memphian J.N. Willis unloads his trash in February 1968. Some Memphis citizens took garbage disposal methods into their own hands during the sanitation workers' strike.

Date Created

10-21-2021

Date

1968-02

Keywords

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

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