Posts Tagged ‘Memphis sanitation strike’

I am a Man

Posted on April 27, 2009, 5:13 pm, by profpam, under Civil Disobedience.

These Philadelphia museum guards are protesting for union recognition. So reminiscent of the posters held be African Americans during the 60’s. These are the Memphis sanitation workers – garbage men – protesting in 1968.

Photo by Richard. L. Copley
An online exhibit of the strike is here.

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