Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

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

Identifier

sc.0475.0280a_02.001

Description

Marchers with signs reading "Honor King: End Racism!" and "Union Justice Now!" during a memorial march in Memphis for the recently slain Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.

Date Created

10-27-2021

Date

1968-04

Keywords

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

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