Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968
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Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.os005_021.008
Description
Memphis City Councilor Gwen Awsumb knits while she listens to AFSCME president Jerry Wurf speak on behalf of striking Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers at City Hall in 1968. Photographer: Bob Williams.
Date Created
2021
Date
1968
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Recommended Citation
"Memphis City Council meet with strikers, 1968" (2021). Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968. 224.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/224
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
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