Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968

 

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Source Collection

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

Identifier

sc.0475.90012_06.040

Description

Hunger strikers (l to r) Jimmy Gates, Rev. Richard Moon (Memphis State University chaplain), and Edward Carter outside Memphis City Hall during the sanitation workers' strike in April 1968.

Date Created

8-22-2021

Date

1968-04

Keywords

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.; Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis

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