In the early 1960s, Black sanitation workers united together to gain better wages and working conditions, fighting the racial discrimination in the Memphis Public Works Department. The first …

Jul 21, 2020 · On February 12, 1968, 1,300 Black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand better working conditions and higher pay. Their stand marked an early fight for …

On 1 February 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Eleven days later, frustrated by the city’s response …

Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, 64-day labor conflict in the winter and spring of 1968 that brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to Memphis, Tennessee. The striking workers sought higher …

6 days ago · Marion S. Trikosko, photographer. Sanitation workers. 1971. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. In February 1968, over 1,000 sanitation workers from the …

Feb 5, 2024 · The Memphis Sanitation Strike occurred between February 12 and April 16, 1968. The sanitation strike was called in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole …

Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike. Feb. 12, 1968 – More than 1,300 Black workers from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike against a pattern of neglect and abuse of …

Oct 8, 2017 · When African American sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike on February 12, 1968, few then suspected the walkout would escalate into one of the climactic struggles of …

Could a line be drawn from Selma in 1965 and the sanitation workers’ strike in 1968 to the activism of today? Shahida Jones, an organizer of Black Lives Matter in Memphis, was quite …

Feb 9, 2018 · How the Memphis Sanitation Strike, with its iconic “I AM A MAN” signs, helped deepen Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radicalism in the last months of his life. Striking members of …