Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

Tom Barber

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Source Collection

Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Identifier

sc.0475.66303_02.023

Description

AFSCME official Jerry Wurf using a police megaphone to talk to striking sanitation workers in Memphis on February 23, 1968.

Date Created

7-15-2021

Date

1968-02-23

Keywords

Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Wurf, Jerry, 1919-; Labor leaders; AFSCME

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