Pathfinder:
Memphis
Sanitation Strike, 1968
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"During a heavy rainstorm in Memphis on February 1, 1968, two black sanitation workers had been crushed to death when the compactor mechanism of the trash truck was accidentally triggered. On the same day in a separate incident also related to the inclement weather, 22 black sewer workers had been sent home without pay while their white supervisors were retained for the day with pay. About two weeks later, on February 12, more than 1,100 of a possible 1,300 black sanitation workers began a strike for job safety, better wages and benefits, and union recognition." http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/mlking.html |
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At the River I Stand [videorecording]
/ a film by David Appleby, Allison Graham, Steven John Ross ; ax
production of Memphis State University, Department of Theatre and
Communication Arts. Call No. : HD5325.S2572 1968 M46, 1993
[Media Center]
Bailey, D'Army. Mine Eyes have Seen : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Journey edited by David Lyons. Call No. : Oversize E185.97.K5 B33 1993 Beifuss, Joan Turner. At the River I Stand : Memphis, the 1968 Strike, and Martin Luther King. Call No. : F444.M5 B35 1989 Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. Call No. : E185.61 .B7914 1988 Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 . Call No. : E185.61 .B7915 1998 Eyes on the Prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights years / Blackside, Inc. ;produced and directed by Judith Vecchione ; executive producer, Harry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer. Call No: E185.61 .E94 1995 [Media Center] Eyes on the Prize II videorecording : America at the racial crossroads, 1965-1985/ Blackside, Inc. Call No.: E185.615 .E932 1989 [Media Center] Frank, Gerold. An American Death; the True Story of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Greatest Manhunt of our Time. Call No. : E185.97.K5 F7 Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Call No. : E185.97.K5 G36 1986 Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. : from "solo" to Memphis. Call No. : E185.97.K5 G3x Halberstam, David. The Children. Call No.: E185.61 .H195 1998 Honey, Michael K. Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. 2000. Call No.: HD8081.A65 H66 1999 Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. 1993. Call No.: HD6519.M45 H66 1993 King videorecording : Montgomery to Memphis / produced by Ely Landau. Call No. : E185.97.K5 .K56 1988 Oates, Stephen B. Let the Trumpet Sound : the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Call No. : E185.97.K5 O18 1982 Pilgrimage to Memphis : Commemorative Journal : Remembering the Man and the Message. Call No. : E185.97.K5 P5 1998 Posner, Gerald L. Killing the Dream : James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Call No. : E185.97.K5 P67 1999 Voices of Freedom : an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s / [compiled by] Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn. Call No. : E185.61 .H224 1990 Williams, Juan. Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965 / Juan Williams ; with the Eyes on the prize production team ; introduction by Julian Bond. Call No. : KF4757 .W52 1987 Withers, Ernest. Pictures Tell the story : Ernest C. Withers Reflections in History. Call No.: F444.M59 N49 2000 |
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Bibliography of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection (MLK
Collection) in the Mississippi Valley Collection (MVC) / compiled by
Odie H. Tolbert, Jr. Call No. : Z1369.N39 B5
Fisher, William Harve. Free at Last : a Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Call No. : Z8464.44 .F57 E185.97.K5 Pyatt, Sherman E. Martin Luther King, Jr. : an Annotated Bibliography. Call No. : Z8464.44 .P9 1986 |
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Electronic Books |
Reflections
of the Dream : 1975-1994, Twenty Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by
Williams, Clarence G. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1996. The Civil Rights Movement. Pasadena, Calif. Salem Press, 2000. The Quiet Voices : Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s Judaic Studies Series (Unnumbered) by Bauman, Mark K.; Kalin, Berkley. Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press, 1997. Black Workers Remember : An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies by Honey, Michael K. Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1999. Community, Violence, And Peace by Herman, A. L. Published by State University of New York Press, 1999 |
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Bibliographies |
A Bibliography of the Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Collection (MLK Collection) in the Mississippi Valley
Collection (MVC) / compiled by Odie H. Tolbert, Jr. Call No. :
Z1369.N39 B5
Fisher, William Harve. Free at Last : a Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Call No. : Z8464.44 .F57 E185.97.K5 Pyatt, Sherman E. Martin Luther King, Jr. : an Annotated Bibliography. Call No. : Z8464.44 .P9 1986 Selected Bibliography on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights and Nonviolence / Martin Luther King Center |
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