Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

James Reid

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Source Collection

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

Identifier

sc.0475.90012_06.029

Description

Jesse Turner, banker and president of the Memphis NAACP, speaks to striking sanitation workers on February 22, 1968.

Date Created

11-20-2021

Date

1968-02-22

Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Turner, Jesse; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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