THE GEORGE MEANY MEMORIAL ARCHIVES

Labor and Civil Rights: Two Movements, One Goal?

Activity: Protest for Social Change


Click Here for a Larger Version Photograph of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Sanitation Workers) Strike, 1968.

National Guardsmen stand on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, with fixed bayonets while strike supporters continue their daily protest march, spring 1968. Troops arrived after the city erupted in violence during a March 28th demonstration led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photograph courtesy: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.


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