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1. Hunger Strikers Outside Memphis City Hall, April 1968

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

2. Students conduct a lunch counter sit-in

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007
Date of Original:: 1960/1967
Collection:: Memphis civil rights photograph collection
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room