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Memphis sanitation workers’ strike
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National Guard troops with rifles block Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing signs reading I AM A MAN walk past during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Large crowd marching in Memphis after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In front, Harry Belafonte, King's sons Martin III and Dexter, Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young.

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Added a cross-reference to the biography of James Lawson. Sep 20, 2024
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