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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Memphis sanitation workers stayed off the job starting January 12, 1968 in a strike that lasted for nine weeks. This was the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on April 4 of that year.

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0:36.1

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

0:45.2

I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

0:48.5

We are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.

0:53.9

We're voting to strike on February 11, 1968.

0:57.8

Memphis Sanitation Workers stayed off the job starting on the 12th in a strike that lasted

1:02.4

for nine weeks.

1:04.2

This is the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee,

1:08.0

where he was assassinated on April 4th of that year.

1:10.7

And for a lot of folks, that is really what they know about the strike.

1:14.0

They know it's the reason that Dr. King was in Memphis that day.

1:17.7

But his assassination also really overshadowed the strike itself, which had been going on

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