The Memphis Sanitation Workers’
Strike and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
A Lesson Plan for Grades 5-8
By: Katie
Hickey Snyder
AHTC Memphis Trip 2010
Articles from The Commercial Appeal
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/feb/02/garbage-truck-kills-2-crewmen/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/feb/13/loeb-issues-order-stop-garbage-strike/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/feb/16/union-vows-strike-will-hold-despite-city-hiring-ne/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/mar/14/king-implored-ministers-come-here/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/mar/19/king-urges-work-stoppage-negroes-back-strike/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/mar/30/king-disappointed-march-hell-try-again-next-week/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/mar/30/city-appears-loss-answers/
 http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/mar/30/lbj-offers-riot-assistance-labor-leader-extends-ha/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/04/king-challenges-court-restraint-vows-march/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/05/gaping-wound-claims-life---hospitals-aid-futile/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/06/tight-curfew-imposed/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/06/dr-king-slain-sniper-looting-arson-touched-death/
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/09/somber-throng-19000-marchers-urged-let-kings-spiri/