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. Workers demanded union recognition and dignity, joining the struggle over racial hierarchy to control over conditions of municipal employment.
Log in om dit verhaal leuk te vinden of te bookmarken.
🔖 Bookmarken
Organisaties in dit Evenement
Nog geen afbeeldingen of video's voor deze gebeurtenis.
Gerelateerde evenementen
What does the Memphis sanitation strike show about antiracist struggle?
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
Black workers linked dignity to material conditions and power in their workplace.
Memphis sanitation workers connected racial dignity with wages, safety and union recognition.
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
Their action targeted unequal conditions and power in municipal employment.