- Collection:
- King's Last March
- Title:
- King's Last March
- Creator:
- Smith, Stephen
- Contributor to Resource:
- Ellis, Kate
American RadioWorks
National Endowment for the Humanities - Date of Original:
- 2008
- Subject:
- Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Strikes and lockouts--Tennessee--Memphis
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee--Memphis
Strikes and lockouts--Refuse collectors--Tennessee--Memphis
Labor unions--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis
Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations
Race relations
Race discrimination--Tennessee--Memphis
Memphis (Tenn.)--Officials and employees
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Protest marches--Tennessee--Memphis
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Peace movements--United States
Speeches, addresses, etc
African American clergy
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Investigations
Governmental investigations--United States
Poor People's Campaign
Protest movements--United States - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
articles
documentaries and factual works
letters (correspondence)
photographs
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Collection
- Description:
- Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site covers King's condemnation of the Vietnam War; organization of the Poor People's March and the fight against poverty; the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike in Memphis, Tennessee; the Federal Bureau of Investigation's surveillance of King; and the power of King's speeches. It links to audio files, documents, and photographs and provides a transcript and audio version of the documentary.
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:
- http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- American Public Media
- Rights:
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