{"id":425,"date":"2024-05-21T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:11:20","slug":"memphis-sanitation-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 12, 1968, over 1,100 sanitation workers went on strike for better wages, working conditions, and safety.\u00a0The strike was sparked by the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two African American sanitation workers who were crushed to death by a garbage compactor.\u00a0The strike also responded to a long history of neglect and abuse of Black employees.\u00a0The workers&#8217; slogan was &#8220;I AM a Man&#8221;.\u00a0The strike lasted two months and four days, ending on April 16, 1968.\u00a0The strike led to union rights and sparked a wave of African-American unionization across the South.\u00a0In late March, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to march with the sanitation workers.\u00a0The demonstration began peacefully but quickly deteriorated into a violent confrontation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12, 1968, over 1,100 sanitation workers went on strike for better wages, working conditions, and safety.\u00a0The strike was sparked by the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two African American sanitation workers who were crushed to death by a garbage compactor.\u00a0The strike also responded to a long history of neglect and abuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}