Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968
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Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.os_san. strike looters.comb.
Description
Looters at Third and Beale Streets, Memphis, Tennessee, on March 29, 1968. A group of youths had left the march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Main Street in support of striking sanitation workers and began breaking windows and looting stores.
Date Created
12-21-2021
Date
1968 March 29
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Recommended Citation
Williams, Bob, "Looters in Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 210.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/210
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
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