- Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
- Title:
- Police and protesters at the corner of Hernando and Beale, Memphis, 1968
- Creator:
- Memphis press scimitar
- Date of Original:
- 1968-02
- 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
African American men--Tennessee--Memphis
Police--Tennessee--Memphis
Signs and signboards--Tennessee--Memphis
Men, White--Tennessee--Memphis
Central business districts--Tennessee--Memphis
Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.) - People:
- Jackson, Ralph
Evans, Sam - 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 February 1968 by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. In the photograph, Ralph Jackson and Sam Evans demonstrate at the corner of Beale Street and Hernando Street in support of the Sanitation Workers' strike; one of the men wears a clerical collar and carries a sign with the slogan "Stay away no shopping." Two policemen walk beside the men; one of the policemen carries a bullhorn. Behind the youth stand two white men, one in a police uniform, near a field of parked cars. Several of the demonstrators have picket signs.
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_12.047
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/106/
- 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: