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- Title
Labor and Civil Rights Movements at the Crossroads: Martin Luther King, Black Workers, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike.
- Authors
Honey, Michael
- Abstract
The article examines the economic justice agenda of human rights leader Martin Luther King and the Memphis Sanitation Strike in Tennessee. The movement of African American workers in Memphis was truly historic for African-American history as well, because it represented the fruits of generations of struggle by poor people in the Mississippi Delta for both labor and civil rights. With the assassination of King in Memphis, elected offices and jobs were made available to African Americans throughout Memphis. The Memphis struggle crystallized the merger among labor, ethnic, and poor people's struggles.
- Subjects
MEMPHIS (Tenn.); TENNESSEE; STRIKES &; lockouts; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; HUMAN rights workers; AFRICAN Americans; LABOR movement; SANITATION
- Publication
West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, 2003, Vol 57, p18
- ISSN
0361-6215
- Publication type
Article