Martin Luther King III speaks at an event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of his father's assassination in the Memphis Mason Temple where King, Jr. delivered his "I have been to the mountaintop" speech.
T. O. Jones, the first president of Memphis Local 1733 and leader of the 1968 sanitation workers strike, speaks at an event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Then president of Local 1733 Taylor Rogers looks on. Jones speaks at the Memphis Mason Temple where Dr. King delivered his "I have been to the mountaintop" speech.
AFSCME leader Bill Lucy briefly discusses the impact participating in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike had on him. Filmed 10/10/2003. Digitized August 2011. Clip extracted December 2011.
AFSCME International Field Staff Director P.J. Ciampa (left), AFSCME International President Jerry Wurf (middle, with back turned), and then executive assistant to Wurf, William (Bill) Lucy (far right with pipe), receive contempt of court charges on March 6, 1968, during the Memphis Local 1733 sanitation workers' strike.
Mayor Henry Loeb (far left) meeting with AFSCME Officials on February 13. Joe Paisley, Field representative, P.J. Ciampa, national director of field services, William Lucy, national associate director of legislation and T.O. Jones, president of Memphis Local 1733 February 13 (left to right).
AFSCME Memphis Local 1733 members who participated in the 1968 sanitation workers strike were inducted into the Department of Labor's Labor Hall of Fame. Front row, left to right: Joe Warren, Russell Walton, Cleo Smith, Herbert Parson. Back row, left to right: Alvin Turner, Baxter Leach, Ozell Ueal.
