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
Inside his home here at 968 Meagher, Joe Warren, a city sanitation worker, hosted strategy meetings with fellow workers in 1968 to plan what would become a historic strike against the City of Memphis. The strike would protest the firing of 33 . . . — — Map (db m149042) HM
Here, on April 4, 1968
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the balcony in front of Room 306, discussing that evening's sanitation strike meeting with aides. King requested his favorite spiritual, Precious Lord, be played that night. . . . — — Map (db m183598) HM
The only woman leader of the struggle to desegregate a major Southern city, Maxine Atkins Smith was an academic and activist who was called the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in Memphis. Born on October 31, 1929, she finished high school at . . . — — Map (db m205158) HM
