- Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
- Title:
- Police arrest Memphis high school students, 1968
- Creator:
- Memphis press scimitar
- Date of Original:
- 1968-04
- Subject:
- 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 - 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 April 1968 by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis police arrest students from Booker T. Washington High School after a walkout in support of the sanitation workers' strike in 1968. 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. - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/99/
- 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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