There are 9 article(s) tagged 1968 Sanitation Strike:

• January 2024

  • Sanford: Sanitation workers are pawns in a political tussle – again

    A $7 increase for enhanced trash collection stalled in a City Council vote. If the increase isn’t approved, 199 full-time Solid Waste employees will lose their jobs. 

    By Otis Sanford January 13, 2024

  • One of last two surviving 1968 sanitation workers dies

    In an NPR interview in 2018, Elmore Nickelberry said, “I knew I wasn’t no garbage man. I just worked in garbage.”

    By Bill Dries January 03, 2024

• September 2023

  • Memphis 1968 glows in stained glass at Clayborn Temple

    An ongoing renovation of the historic church was paused Thursday, Sept. 28, for a look at new stained-glass images of the city’s turmoil in the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.

    By Bill Dries September 29, 2023

• April 2021

  • Opinion: Without Dr. King, the 1968 sanitation strike might have been a footnote

    “I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”

    By Johnnie Mosley April 02, 2021

• March 2021

  • Opinion: Waste Pro has got to go

    It’s time for the city to cancel its five-year, $33.1 million contract with Waste Pro.

    By Otis Sanford March 25, 2021

• February 2021

  • Clayborn Temple stained glass could capture historic events

    The Center City Development Corp. will consider a $50,000 grant to help create new stained-glass windows for Historic Clayborn Temple.

    By Tom Bailey February 11, 2021

• February 2020

  • The Politics of Garbage: A backlog of leaves bumps into complex past

    The city's response to a backlog in picking up leaves reveals just how politically volatile the city's most basic service can be -- and has been -- for decades.

    By Bill Dries February 03, 2020

• April 2019

  • King’s words resonate with new rhythm, insight

    During the annual observance, civil rights veteran and icon Rev. James Lawson also talked about his invitation for King to come to Memphis in behalf of sanitation workers and the "politics of assassination."

    By Bill Dries April 04, 2019

• January 2019

  • $1.5M building permit filed for Clayborn Temple exterior work

    Clayborn Temple is preparing for work to begin on the historic site's exterior. 

    By Elle Perry January 25, 2019