Historical Organization

County and Municipal Employees Local 1733

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Racism 📍 United States

County and Municipal Employees Local 1733

Also known as: AFSCME

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Organization Timeline

Memphis sanitation workers begin their strike

📅 12 February 1968

Black sanitation workers stopped work after years of unsafe conditions, low pay and unequal treatment. The deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker earlier that month intensified their grievances....