Jessie Epss, an AFSCME staffer and strike leader, discusses how the strikers gained community support. Filmed 10/10/2003. Digitized August 2011. Clip extracted December 2011.
Cartoon about the success of AFSCME and civil rights leaders winning the sanitation workers union recognition and improved working conditions after a 65 day strike.
AFSCME International President Jerry Wurf watches as Reverend Ralph Abernathy (right), leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, welcomes Senator Ted Kennedy to the rostrum at the one year memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis in April 1969.
Labor and civil rights leaders march with the King family in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. a few days after his assassination while supporting striking sanitation workers of AFSCME Local 1733. First row from left: singer, actor, and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte; King's daughter Yolanda; King's sons, Martin III and Dexter; King's widow, Coretta Scott King; Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Reverend Andrew Young; and Rabbi Abraham Heschel. Second row, beginning right of Yolanda: Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; AFSCME President Jerry Wurf; civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; May Reuther and her husband, UAW President Walter Reuther; and AFL-CIO Civil Rights Director Don Slaiman.
Reverend James Lawson discusses leaving a late night strategizing meeting with other strike leaders and fearing that a bomb might have been placed in his very recognizable car. Filmed 10/10/2003. Digitized August 2011. Clip extracted December 2011.
AFSCME leader Bill Lucy discusses the security forces used to monitor marching strikers. He also discusses information that came out after the fact about the FBI's role in provoking violence from strikers. Filmed 10/10/2003. Digitized August 2011. Clip extracted December 2011.
AFSCME leader Bill Lucy discusses the working conditions for sanitation workers in Memphis when they went on strike for union recognition in 1968. Filmed 10/10/2003. Digitized August 2011. Clip extracted December 2011.
Rev. H. Ralph Jackson, Rev. L.E. Donaldson, police commissioner Frank Holloman, and Dr. Baxton Bryant, Tennessee council on human relations (left to right).
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family leads the memorial march held in Memphis after he was assassinated while showing his support for AFSCME Local 1733's sanitation workers' strike. To the right of Coretta Scott King and her children Yolanda, Martin III, and Dexter, are Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rev. Andrew Young.
