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How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

The 1968 action led to greater economic mobility for Black workers. Today, union activists are trying to capture some of that spirit.

Kurtis Lee
Author: Kurtis Lee

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Civil Rights Movement (1954-68), internal-open-access, Memphis (Tenn), Organized Labor
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