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| Creator: | Smith, Stephen |
| Creator: | Ellis, Kate |
| Title: | King's last march |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Description: | Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis Strikes and lockouts--Tennessee--Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 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 African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis Protest marches--Tennessee--Memphis Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements Peace movements--United States Speeches, addresses, etc African American clergy United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Investigations Governmental investigations--United States Poor People's Campaign Protest movements--United States Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site covers King's condemnation of the Vietnam War; organization of the Poor People's March and the fight against poverty; the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike in Memphis, Tennessee; the Federal Bureau of Investigation's surveillance of King; and the power of King's speeches. It links to audio files, documents, and photographs and provides a transcript and audio version of the documentary. 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: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Articles | Documentaries and factual works | Letters (correspondence) | Photographs | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination | United States | Memphis (Tenn.) | Shelby County (Tenn.) |
| Institution: | American Public Media |
| Contributors: | American Public Media | American RadioWorks | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Online Publisher: | [Saint Paul (Minn.)] : American Public Media | 2008-03 |
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| Persistent Link to Item: | http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/ |
