Title

Looters in Memphis, 1968

Creators

Bob Williams

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Source Collection

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

Recommended Citation

Williams, Bob, "Looters in Memphis, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 210.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/210