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