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

Day 4

1.    Divide the class into small groups. Give each group a long scroll piece of paper. Small groups will each be responsible for one piece of a whole class timeline. As a answer key, the teacher can use the following document to make sure all the major events leading up to the death of MLK are covered. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/1968/apr/16/strike-chronology/