Both the snow and holidays meant that the sanitation ... workers have been trying to play catchup. “With the holidays, we can schedule that, and we can make plans, but when the winter weather ...

"That continues until today." Following the sanitation workers' strike, Mason partnered with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize the Black farmworkers' strike. Lynne Kemmer, Community ...

paving the way for sanitation workers to form a union two years later. Soon after the strike, C. Bette Wimbish was elected as City Council’s first Black member. The lead attorney for the strike ...

National Guard troops line the streets as Black sanitation workers demonstrate in Memphis on March 29, 1968, days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In his last speech on April 3 ...

AP King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest inhumane treatment. Two workers had been crushed in a garbage ...

Merely having a job was not enough for the 1,300 Black sanitation workers protesting Memphis’ labor practices in 1968 —where they were forced to work in the torrential rain that led to the ...

Celebrate Black History Month in the Triangle with this guide of stories on its roots in North Carolina, a list of events, Black-owned businesses and restaurants you should know about and much more.

Nine Black sanitation workers say that the City of St. Louis didn't pay them properly for overtime and that they were paid less than their white colleagues. A lawsuit filed in federal court ...

Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final days protesting the hazardous work conditions suffered by black sanitation workers in Memphis. A shadow of this problem continues today, manifesting in ...