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How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

Kurtis Lee
Sanitation workers prepared to demonstrate on March 28, 1968

Sanitation workers prepared to demonstrate on March 28, 1968, as part of a labor strike that led to union recognition. Ernest C. Withers, Sr., via Withers Family Trust

Gary "Hoov" Hoover, Executive Director of The Murphy Institute and Tulane Professor of Economics, is quoted in a New York Times article by Kurtis Lee examining the impact of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike on economic mobility for Black workers 50 years later. Today, union activists are trying to capture some of that spirit.

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