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Subject Arrest--Tennessee--Memphis

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1. Police arrest Memphis high school students, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-04
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

2. Memphis police detain man, 1968

Creator:: Memphis press scimitar
Date of Original:: 1968-03-26
Collection:: 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

3. Memphis police detain injured man, 1968

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

4. Black college and high school students arrested during demonstration

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007
Date of Original:: 1950/1959
Collection:: Memphis civil rights photograph collection
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room