SYMHC Classics: The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Stuff You Missed in History Class
September 5, 202032m 18s
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Show Notes
This 2018 episode is running in honor of Labor Day in the U.S. Memphis sanitation workers stayed off the job starting January 12, 1968 in a strike that lasted for nine weeks. This was the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on April 4 of that year.
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