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  • This Isn't New York!

    Mayor Henry Loeb said that Memphis was not New York when comparing wages of sanitation workers.

  • Union Shop Cartoon

    Cartoon showing the success of AFSCME to make the Memphis sanitation workers department a union shop.

  • Victory in Memphis

    Jerry Wurf celebrates with officers of local 1733 and supporters after ratification.

  • Washington Settlement

    Washington, D.C. Mayor, Walter Washington, and Local 1 Chapter Chairman of Sanitary Engineering, Thurmond Hayes, sign the contract that meant 35 cents an hour for D.C. sanitation workers in May 1970.

  • Washington Strikes

    Strikers wear picket signs during AFSCME Local 1's sanitation workers' strike in Washington, D.C., May 1970.

  • Watts also waited too late

    Rev. James Lawson with a supporter of the Memphis downtown boycott.

  • Wurf, King, Ciampa, Memphis

    AFSCME President Jerry Wurf consults with Martin Luther King, Jr. who traveled to Memphis to lend support to the striking sanitation workers of Local 1733. AFSCME Field Director P.J. Ciampa stands behind them.