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 ...

Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...

(Courtesy of Ron Baker, AFSCME) Joe Calhoun had not fully grasped the depths of civic activism when he first joined the fight for labor justice during the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. According ...

The Mid-South is expected to see more than 3 inches of snow in some areas and frigid temperatures. Here's what to know about the storm's impact.

Memphis' winter storm warning went into ... right in the midst of some of the most active days of the city sanitation workers' strike, causing the cancellation of a March 22 march that Dr ...

got the reverend involved in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike. King would later be assassinated during his April 1968 trip to Memphis, just one week before then-President Lyndon B.

Coretta Scott King is often remembered as a devoted wife and mother, yet she was also a committed activist in her own right.

On Feb. 1, 1968, Robert Walker and Echol Cole ... were crushed in the truck’s grinder, Sokol said. The sanitation strike engulfed Memphis as a result on Feb. 12, as protestors opposed Public ...