Their deaths, in part, set in motion the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike in 1968. The salute will surely jar the memories of heroes like the Rev. Cleophus Smith, Elmore Nickleberry and Ozell ...

Memphis sanitation workers had been unhappy for years. The death of Echol Cole and Robert Walker the catalyst for the 1968 Sanitation Worker Strike. Neither Cole or Walker had life insurance ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis pastor who was the last surviving sanitation worker whose strike brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

In rallies that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers strike, restaurant workers marched Monday in a number of cities in ongoing efforts for a $15 an hour ...

One Memphis family reflected on the life of a man who fought for fairness and equality in his own way. Herbert Parson, a City of Memphis sanitation worker ... the sanitation strike was going ...

MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee ...

The Memphis sanitation workers went on strike, demanding union recognition against impossible odds. And a month and a half later, Dr. King came to town. Nearly every product of the American ...