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

Keywords

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

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