tws_oid32 oid32 tws yes Memphis world, April 6, 1968 African American newspapers--Tennessee--Memphis Memphis world African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century Race discrimination--Tennessee--Memphis African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 United States Commission on Civil Rights. Tennessee State Advisory Committee--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis--Social life and customs--20th century Owens College--Finance African American universities and colleges--Tennessee--Memphis African Americans--Violence against--Tennessee--Memphis Race riots--Tennessee--Memphis Apportionment (Election law)--United States United States. Supreme Court African Americans--Suffrage King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination Kuykendall, Dan Heflin, 1924-2008 Payne, Larry, d. 1968--Death and burial Kyles, Samuel Billy Douglas, Mansfield Durick, Joseph A. (Joseph Aloysius), 1914-1994 Selected articles from the April 6, 1968 issue of the Memphis World, the African American newspaper based in Memphis, Tennessee. Articles include a notice of new members appointed to the Tennessee State Commission on Civil Rights; the winner of a writing contest; news of the Sanitation Workers' Strike and a recent march; plans for a spring art festival; report of a speech by Congressman Dan Kuykendall criticizing Martin Luther King, Jr.; funds raised for a local African American college; the death of a well-known barber; and an extension of the United States Supreme Court one-man, one-vote doctrine. 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. [Memphis, Tenn.] : Rhodes College Rhodes College Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive Project (Rhodes College) 2008 Newspapers Articles http://www.crossroadstofreedom.org/detail.collection?oid=32 Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive Project. 1968-04-06 Memphis (Tenn.) Shelby County (Tenn.) Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Use of the site's content is subject to the conditions and terms of use on our Legal Notices page. 20120829 102049