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_01.014
Description
Sanitation workers on strike wearing signs that read "I AM A MAN" marching down Main Street, Memphis, in March 1968, while National Guardsmen in an armored personnel carrier patrol alongside.
Date Created
6-15-2021
Date
1968-03
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Recommended Citation
Ross, Ken, "Marchers with "I AM A MAN" sign, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 21.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/21
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
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