memphis sanitation workers
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Episode 4: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Memphis Sanitation Workers Go on Strike
As the families of Echol Cole and Robert Walker struggled to put their loved ones to rest, a different kind of storm was brewing in Memphis, Tenn.—and Feb. 12, 1968, was a tipping point. Cole and Walker had only been dead for about two weeks, having been crushed to death by a faulty, outdated garbage…