How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

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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