Sanitation Workers' Strike, Memphis, 1968

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Sanitation_Workers'_Strike,_Memphis,_1968
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:trade_unionist
gptkbp:cause racial discrimination
low wages
unsafe working conditions
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:National_Civil_Rights_Museum
annual events in Memphis
gptkbp:endDate 1968-04-16
gptkbp:historicalSignificance major event in the Civil Rights Movement
highlighted labor and racial justice issues
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sanitation Workers' Strike, Memphis, 1968
gptkbp:location gptkb:Memphis,_Tennessee
gptkbp:notableEvent April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 3, 1968 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' speech
March 28, 1968 march led by Martin Luther King Jr.
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkbp:numberOfEmployees over 1,300
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Henry_Loeb
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:AFSCME_Local_1733
gptkbp:protestType marches
boycotts
sit-ins
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkbp:result union recognition
improved wages
national attention to civil rights
gptkbp:slogan I AM A MAN
gptkbp:startDate 1968-02-12
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
local clergy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ernest_C._Withers
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8