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Memphis sanitation strike - 1968
I Am a Man sanitation workers strike, Memphis, TN, 1968
Withers was born in 1922.
His work has been archived by the Library of Congress
and is slated to enter the permanent collection
of the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of African American History and Culture,
in Washington, DC
Photograph:
The
Ernest C Withers Family Trust;
courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Rock’n’roll and the civil rights struggle:
African American life in the south – in pictures
Ernest C Withers’ photographs take viewers to the record
stores,
picket lines and proms of the American south
during the 1940s, 50s and 60s
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Wed 9 Jun 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/09/
ernest-c-withers-civil-rights-struggle-in-pictures
The Tennessee National Guard fixed bayonets
on a march by Memphis sanitation workers and
supporters.
1968.
Photograph:
Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
A Look at the Heart-Wrenching Moments From
Equal Rights Battles
By Evelyn Nieves
NYT Dec. 14, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/
a-look-at-the-heart-wrenching-moments-from-equal-rights-battles/
1,300 black men
from the Memphis Department of Public Works
went on strike after a malfunctioning truck
crushed two garbage collectors to death.
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/15/
578176756/honoring-memphis-sanitation-workers-who-went-on-strike-in-1968
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/09/
ernest-c-withers-civil-rights-struggle-in-pictures
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/15/
578176756/honoring-memphis-sanitation-workers-who-went-on-strike-in-1968
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/posner-dream.html
- 1998
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/04/17/
archives/sanitation-strike-in-memphis-ends-employes-win-recognition-of-union.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/18/
archives/memphis-is-beset-by-racial-tension-garbage-strike-has-become-a.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/25/
archives/leaders-of-strike-curbed-in-memphis.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/17/
archives/naacp-assails-memphis-on-strike.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/13/
archives/a-garbage-strike-plagues-memphis.html
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