Sanitation Strike Pathfinder
http://www.rhodes.edu/library/pathfinders/SanitationStrike.html
This Rhodes College site has a comprehensive list of research resources available on the strike including books, bibliographies, journal articles and links.
GoMemphis
http://www.newgomemphis.com/newgo/mlk/strike.html
Reprint of an article discussing the strike and its aftermath from the Commercial Appeal newspaper.
Sanitation Workers Recall Dr. King's help
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/01/17/loc_sanitation_workers.html
Cincinnati Enquirer article discusses the impact of the 1968 Stike on current sanitation workers pay and working conditions.
Memphis Flyer
http://www.memphisflyer.com/MFSearch/full_results.asp?xt_from=1&aID=2465
Full text of the poem from which the phrase "I AM A MAN" was taken and a biography of it's author.
The Memphis Sanitation Strike: Oral History
http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/arch2002jan-june.html
Segment 2: "The Memphis Sanitation Strike" this piece includes an interview with a sanitation worker from Memphis and an excerpt from a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the time of that strike. Time: 9:52. You need Real Player software to hear this. This free software is available at http://www.real.com/realone/index.html?lang=en&loc=us
Memphis Civil Rights Research Consortium (MCRRC)
http://www.lib.memphis.edu/speccoll.htm
The MCRRC seeks to make the civil-rights related holdings of its members available to researchers. A sampling of photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike (from the MVC holdings) can be viewed at Images of the Struggle
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Soul of America
http://www.soulofamerica.com/cityfldr/memphis12.html
This site focues on Dr. King's last days.
The King Center
http://thekingcenter.com/default.asp
Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
This site provides PDF transcripts and RealAudio recordings of Dr. King's major speeches and sermons as well as chronologies of his life and work.
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/memphis_v_mlk/memphis_v_mlk.html
Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
Exhibit on 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike.
Sanitation Workers Strike Memphis 1968
http://www.queenslibrary.org/gallery/marchon/Index.asp?content=essay_sani
An essay from Queens Borough Public Library's exhibit on Ernst Whithers' photographs of the civil rights movement, March On, http://www.queenslibrary.org/gallery/marchon/index.asp.
