The group recreated a famous photo from the 1968 Sanitation Strike, which brought Dr. King here before his assassination. The ...

Initially, it was difficult for Memphis’ Black sanitation workers to organize in 1968. Some older workers did not want to strike despite the deaths of fellow workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker ...

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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Sanitation workers and other public works employees in Macon were treated to lunch in honor of ...

this speech was in support of the Memphis Sanitation Strike. In it, King discusses America’s ideals, economic injustice and the right to nonviolent protest, and gives an eerie premonition of his ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was on a tour of the South to recruit volunteers for his “Poor People’s Campaign”, spoke to ...

In 1968 Maxine Smith served on the coordinating committee of the Memphis sanitation strike. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis to lead a march in support of the strike when he was assassinated.

A stroll along the Memphis Heritage Trail guides visitors ... the landscape sculpture dedicated to the members of the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike as well as those who strived to mend racial ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...