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| Creator: | Memphis press scimitar |
| Title: | Booker T. students arrested |
| Date: | 1968 Apr. |
| Description: | Black-and-white photograph taken in April 1968 by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. In the photograph, Booker T. students are being arrested. The Memphis Sanitation Workers' strike began on February 11, 1968, following years of dangerous working conditions, discrimination, and the work-related deaths of two African American sanitation workers. Led by local clergy, community members engaged in boycotts, mass meetings, marches, and other civil disobedience in support of the strike. The strike ended April 12, 1968. The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 | Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights--African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis | Protest marches--Tennessee--Memphis | Soldiers--Tennessee--Memphis | African American high school students--Tennessee--Memphis | Police--Tennessee--Memphis | Booker T. Washington High School (Memphis, Tenn.)--Students | Arrest--Tennessee--Memphis | Shelby County (Tenn.) | Memphis (Tenn.) |
| Collection: | 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike |
| Institution: | University of Memphis. Special Collections Dept. |
| Contributors: | University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. | Volunteer Voices (Project) |
| Online Publisher: | Knoxville, Tenn. : Volunteer Voices | 2007-04-10 |
| Original Material: | 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike, PS 90012, University of Memphis Libraries Special Collections, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Rights and Usage: | For current rights information, please visit: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200600000001200 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001972 |
