Stuff You Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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SYMHC Classics: The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
32 minutes Posted Sep 5, 2020 at 8:20 am.
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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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