There are 3 article(s) tagged Sanitation Strike:

• August 2019

  • Baxter Leach, iconic sanitation worker, dies

    Baxter Leach, one of the remaining participants of the historic 1968 sanitation workers strike, has died.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 27, 2019

• April 2019

  • Second Memphis Cares reflects on Memphis of 1968 and change

    The interfaith gathering came 51 years to the day of the original gathering. Rev. James Lawson, who spoke at the original Memphis Cares, said Sunday Memphis can be "a different kind of city a generation from now."

    By Bill Dries April 08, 2019

• March 2019

  • A sanitation worker’s struggle still inspires his son

    In a 1973 interview with Ebony magazine, Memphis sanitation worker John C. White said Dr. Martin Luther King's sacrifice stayed with him: “I've had a better life.”

    By Johnnie Mosley March 28, 2019