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| Title: | Rev. Johnnie Johnson Jr. and the 1972 City Workers' Strike |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Description: | In the spring of 1972, the Rev. Johnnie Johnson Jr. led about 260 black sanitation workers and black employees of the water, gas, and light departments on a general strike. Throughout the 1960s, blacks who worked for the city still had faced separate and unequal working conditions: salaries lower than those of white employees doing the same work, separate restrooms and water fountains in employee facilities, even separate coffee pots based on race. As well as organizing a union, the strikers demanded better pay, fair hiring practices, and an end to workplace segregation. Freedom on Film is a component of the Civil Rights Digital Library, which received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Articles | Lesson plans | Teaching guides |
| Subjects: | King, C. B. (Chevene Bowers), 1923-1988 | Johnson, Johnnie, 1940-2000 | Johnson, Yastrzemski | Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.) | General strikes--Georgia--Albany | Strikes and lockouts--Georgia--Albany | Discrimination in employment--Georgia--Albany | Race discrimination--Georgia--Albany | Segregation--Georgia--Albany | Wages--Sanitation workers--Georgia--Albany | Sanitation workers--Georgia--Albany | African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Albany | Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany | Civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany | African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Albany | African American men--Georgia--Albany | Albany (Ga.) | Dougherty County (Ga.) |
| Collection: | Albany |
| Institution: | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (University of Georgia) |
| Contributors: | Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) | Freedom on Film (Project) | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Freedom on Film | 2007 |
| Rights and Usage: | Cite as: Freedom on Film : Civil Rights in Georgia, http://civilrights.uga.edu/ For permission to use story passages or images from the Web site, contact Dr. Barbara McCaskill at bmccaski@uga.edu. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of the Civil Rights Digital Library. Forms part of the Freedom on Film Learning Object Web site. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://civilrights.uga.edu/bibliographies/albany/johnnyjr.htm |
