Memphis, Tennessee Feb-March 1968
Sanitation Strikes/Martin Luther King's death
February 1, 1968- Two men are killed in a sanitation truck from an accident.
February 12, 1968- Sanitation workers go on strike.
February 13, 1968- An International Union official comes to Memphis from Washington to talk to the mayor and try to set things right. Mayor says he will just hire new sanitation workers if strikes continue.
February 14, 1968- Talks break off and trash starts to pile up.
February 26-27, 1968- Marches begin and protesters begin to march on city hall.
March 18, 1968- Newspapers post that protests are failing but 17000 show up for city wide march.
March 28, 1968- March turns deadly when police attack the crowd using tear gas baton's and gas. A 16 year old boy named larry payne is killed.
March 29, 1968 President Johnson offers to help with the strikes but mayor Henry Loeb turns them down.
April 3, 1968- Martin Luther King returns to Memphis and gives his " I've been to the Mountain top" address. He cancelled his trip to Africa to try to help in Memphis.
April 4, 1968- James Earl Ray Assassinates Martin Luther King Jr. from the balcony of his hotel.
April 16, 1968- The strike ends after both sides reach agreements.
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Nabil - Commercial Appeal
1. How well of a job did The Commercial Appeal, a southern newspaper, cover civil rights in the changing south?
2. What side did they choose to cover, that of the whites or of the blacks?
3. What were some of the big events in Memphis that The Commercial Appeal covered?
During the Early days of Civil Rights, Many news mediums in the South, where torn between how to cover certain civil rights issues. We see an early constant trend of lack of coverage of African American news stories but stories about whites where properly addressed. A lack of being informed leaves people out of the loop and in a state of turmoil with being unaware of the “real” world. In a sense African Americans in areas where African American issues/events where not documented in the news where living in a world cut off from American society. Through my research and writings I hope to find how well the Commercial Appeal has documented as well as covered the early civil rights events that happened in and around Memphis as well as the rest of the United States.
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