- Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
- Title:
- Marchers with "I AM A MAN" sign, Memphis, 1968
- Creator:
- Memphis press scimitar
- Date of Original:
- 1968-03
- Subject:
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Strikes and lockouts--Tennessee--Memphis
Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights--African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Protest marches--Tennessee--Memphis
Signs and signboards--Tennessee--Memphis
Soldiers--Tennessee--Memphis
Central business districts--Tennessee--Memphis - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Black-and-white photograph taken in March 1968 by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. In the photograph, African American men march down the sidewalk wearing signs with the slogan "I am a man." Other people on the sidewalk watch the demonstrators. Members of the National Guard in tanks drive down the street near the demonstrators.
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 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. - Local Identifier:
- sc.0475.90012_01.014
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/21
- Original Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike, PS 90012, University of Memphis Libraries Special Collections, Memphis, Tennessee
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department
- Rights:
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