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| Title: | Dr. King and the 1968 AFSCME Memphis Sanitation Strike | AFSCME and Dr. King |
| Date: | 1968-present |
| Description: | Web site with information about the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, and the role played by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The site contains photographs, video, and articles about the strike and King's work while he was in Memphis. Materials on the site were created by or gathered by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs | Articles | Moving images | Web sites |
| Subjects: | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination | Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 | Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis | Strikes and lockouts--Tennessee--Memphis | Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee--Memphis | Strikes and lockouts--Refuse collectors--Tennessee--Memphis | Labor unions--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis | Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations | Race relations | Race discrimination--Tennessee--Memphis | Memphis (Tenn.)--Officials and employees | African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis | AFSCME | African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis | Speeches, addresses, etc. | African American labor union members--Tennessee--Memphis | Memphis (Tenn.) | Shelby County (Tenn.) |
| Institution: | AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) |
| Contributors: | AFSCME |
| Online Publisher: | [Washington (D.C.)] : AFSCME | 2008 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.afscme.org/about/1029.cfm |
