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_021.009

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Led by Assistant Police Chief Henry Lux (holding radio), 117 striking sanitation workers and their supporters, arrested for refusing to leave the Council Chamber, march out of Memphis, Tennessee, City Hall to the police station, March 5, 1968. Photographer: Barney Sellers.

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2021

Date

1968 March 5

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Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.

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