Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

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

Identifier

sc.0475.90012_06.033

Description

Negotiations between (clockwise from far left) Memphis labor advocate Franks Miles, AFSCME representatives P.J. Ciampa, Jerry Wurf, and William Lucy as part of efforts to settle the Memphis sanitation workers' strike in April 1968. At the bottom left, wearing glasses, is U.S. Department of Labor undersecretary James Reynolds.

Date Created

8-21-2021

Date

1968-04

Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis; Miles, Frank; Reynolds, James; Ciampa, P.J.; Wurf, Jerry, 1919-; Lucy, William; AFSCME

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