- Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
- Title:
- Solitary protester in the Memphis snow, 1968
- Creator:
- Memphis press scimitar
Payne, Fred - Date of Original:
- 1968-03-22
- 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
Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations
Race relations
Race discrimination--Tennessee--Memphis
Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee--Memphis
Strikes and lockouts--Refuse collectors--Tennessee--Memphis
Men, White--Tennessee--Memphis
Labor union members--Tennessee--Memphis
Signs and signboards--Tennessee--Memphis
Picketing--Tennessee--Memphis
Blue collar workers--Tennessee--Memphis - People:
- Moore, Thomas
- 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 from March 1968 taken by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. In the photograph, Thomas Moore, an International Harvester employee from Detroit and supporter of the sanitation workers strike, demonstrates alone outside of Memphis city hall following a snow storm. Moore wears a sign with the slogan "Do right Mr. Mayor!--R.T.D." referring to Memphis mayor Henry Loeb. Mayor Henry Loeb later went out to give Moore coffee.
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, including Methodist pastor James Lawson, 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_04.032
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/109/
- 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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