Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

Jim Shearin

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Source Collection

Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Identifier

sc.0452.01.052B_002.009

Description

In a meeting at St. Mary's Cathedral on February 18, 1968, hosted by the Memphis Ministers Association, city and union officials discuss the sanitation workers' strike. Left to right from top left: Mayor Henry Loeb, City Attorney Frank Gianotti, Assistant City Attorney Myron Halle, Rev. James A. Jordan; from left with backs to the camera: union leaders Joseph Paisley, William Lucy, and P.J. Ciampa.

Date Created

12-5-2021

Date

1968-02-18

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Keywords

Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Loeb, Henry, 1920-; Paisley, Joe; Ciampa, P.J.; Lucy, William

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