Sanitation strike tapes
Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
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Publisher
Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College
Date of Original
1960/1973
Subject
Memphis (Tenn.)
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Interviews
Oral history
Civil rights
Race relations
Witnesses
Radio news programs
History
Religion
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination
Municipal government
Politics and government
Education
Location
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898
Medium
oral histories (literary works)
Type
Sound
Description
Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
The Memphis Search for Meaning Committee, a bi-racial, volunteer, non-profit, community research and study group which had spontaneously banded together immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Conscious that, as Memphis citizens, we had been both witnesses to and participants in history, we had, for almost three years, been collecting material and information in an effort to achieve and communicate a fuller understanding of what had happened in our city and why it had happened.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Rhodes College
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