King's last march
Radio documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.
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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, 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.
Contributing Institution
American Public Media
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