• Episode 10: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends

    When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers felt a sense of guilt mixed in with their sadness and shock, but they had more work to do. The strike wasn’t over yet. No, it would be another 12 days—12 days filled with determination—before the strike…

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