Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

Creators

Jack Cantrell

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Source Collection

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

Identifier

sc.0475.0279a_04.056

Description

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis in support of the sanitation workers strike, at a press conference, March 1968. Rev. Ralph Abernathy is at King's left.

Date Created

7-20-2021

Date

1968-03

Keywords

Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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