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By Serah Delong, circa January 26, 2014
Tragic Accident Sparks Sanitation Strike Marker
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1 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Colonial Acres — 4E 173 — Tragic Accident Sparks Sanitation Strike —
On Colonial Road at Sea Isle Road, on the right when traveling north on Colonial Road.
Side 1 On February 1, 1968, sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker took shelter from the rain inside their truck's garbage barrel because they had no raincoats. One block south of here, at the corner of Colonial and Verne, the . . . — — Map (db m83491) HM
2 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Downtown Memphis — 4E 95 — The Lorraine Motel —
On Mulberry Street at Hulling Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Mulberry Street.
Originally the Windsor Hotel (c. 1925) and later one of only a few hotels for blacks, it hosted such entertainers as Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, B.B. King, and Nat King Cole. Walter and Loree Bailey bought it in 1942, renaming it . . . — — Map (db m82865) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Nov. 11, 2026