- Collection:
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. arriving in Memphis, April 3, 1968
- Creator:
- Memphis press scimitar
Leaptrott, William - Date of Original:
- 1968-04
- 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
African American clergy--Tennessee--Memphis
Clergy--Tennessee--Memphis
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Air pilots
Airplanes - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Young, Andrew, 1932-
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Lee, Bernard Scott, -1991 - 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 April 3, 1968 taken by the Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. The photograph shows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, and Bernard Lee exiting an airplane in Memphis. A white pilot stands behind the men, watching other passengers disembark. King and his fellow civil rights workers from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) were in Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. King planned to lead a peaceful demonstration, but was stopped by court injunction. That night, he gave a speech titled "I've been to the mountain top" at the Memphis Mason Temple. The following day, King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel.
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_01.012
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-swstrike/18
- 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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