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Subject African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis Event Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

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1. King's Last March

Creator:: Smith, Stephen
Date of Original:: 2008
Collection:: King's Last March
Contributing Institution:: American Public Media

2. I Am a Man: An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

Date of Original:: 2006
Collection:: I Am a Man: An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
Contributing Institution:: Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University)

3. Violence breaks out, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis Press-Scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03-28
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

4. Debris-strewn Memphis street, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

5. Police at Booker T. Washington High School, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

6. Protesting against strike breakers, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

7. Rev. Billy Kyles at Mason Temple, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

8. Sanitation Workers at Mason Temple, March 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

9. Rev. James Lawson with picket sign, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-02-26
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

10. Sanitation workers meeting at Mason Temple, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-02
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

11. National Guardsmen, Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

12. National Guardsmen on duty in Memphis, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department