MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Rain was falling in Memphis, Tennessee, when two sanitation workers picking up trash sought shelter in the back of a city garbage truck on Feb. 1, 1968. The poorly-maintained ...
Joe Calhoun remembers the sight of National Guard soldiers in Memphis when he was a part of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He says the deployment of soldiers again to Memphis decades later is ...
In Memphis, Tenn., 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers braved the bitter cold to engage in a revolutionary 65-day action to defend their right to personhood. These men struggled against the noose of white ...
‘Precious’ Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher to Adapt ‘I Am a Man’ About 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike
*Oscar-winning “Precious” screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher will pen a big screen adaption of “I Am a Man,” based on Michael K. Honey’s 2007 book about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still fresh for Joe Calhoun. Back then, he marched in the ...
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