Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

Vernon Matthews

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Source Collection

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

Identifier

sc.0452.01.052B_002.013

Description

Labor officials in Memphis, Tennessee, during the sanitation workers' strike: left to right: Tommy Powell, (President, Memphis Labor Council and chairman), Forrest Dickerson (Secretary-treasurer), P.J. Ciampa (AFSCME national director of field services), R.L. Campbell (Recording secretary), Bill Ross (AFL-CIO Labor Council secretary executive), February 1968.

Date Created

12-9-2021

Date

1968-02

Keywords

Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Ciampa, P.J.

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