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 ...

A Memphis pastor who was the last surviving sanitation worker whose strike brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in ...

Herbert Parson, a City of Memphis sanitation worker for more than 45 years, helped to lead the charge for fair wages and improved working conditions in 1968 ... the sanitation strike was going ...

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 ...

But the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike plays, at best, a tertiary role in the popular narrative of King's legacy—this despite the fact that it was his last campaign, the battle which ...

Fifty years after a historic strike by sanitation workers in Memphis ... of the broader Poor People's Campaign. It was in Memphis on April 4, 1968, where the civil rights leader was assassinated.

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, listening to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement MEMPHIS — At the ...

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 ...