Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, in partnership with First Baptist Church of Longview, hosted a brunch to honor the ...
The photographic works of Dr. Ernest Withers are preserved and displayed at The Withers Collection Museum and Gallery in ...
Kraken anthem singer Tommie Burton lives a life full of a lot of different notes, including the celebration of his mother, ...
Herbert Parson, a Memphis sanitation worker for more than 45 years, was honored by former President Barack Obama for sacrifice in 1968 sanitation workers strike.
The Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike began on Feb. 12, 1968, and ended on April 16, 1968, about two weeks after King was killed in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. “At the end of the day ...
Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, listening to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement MEMPHIS — At the ...
Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...
Dr. Martin Luther King (center) is surrounded by leaders of the sanitation strike in Memphis as he ... [+] arrived to lead a march in support of the striking workers in 1968. Shortly after the ...