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.0475.90012_09.004
Description
A National Guardsman in action during the Memphis sanitation workers' strike in 1968. Inscribed on the verso of the photograph: "Warrant officer Homer D. Gaines attempts to find sniper near Hernando and Beale."
Date Created
11-24-2021
Date
1968
Recommended Citation
"Seaching for a sniper, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 183.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/183
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis