EPISODE · Sep 5, 2020 · 32 MIN
SYMHC Classics: The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
from Stuff You Missed in History Class · host iHeartPodcasts
This 2018 episode is running in honor of Labor Day in the U.S. Memphis sanitation workers stayed off the job starting January 12, 1968 in a strike that lasted for nine weeks. This was the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on April 4 of that year. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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SYMHC Classics: The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
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