Memphis / Washington / Lincoln / Chattanooga / Birmingham / New York / Nashville / Chicago / Knoxville / /
Company
Ford Motor Company / Pullman Company / Firestone Company / Public Works / Houghton Mifflin Co. / Loeb / Harvard University Press / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / Vietnam / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Employment Change / Layoffs / Political Endorsement / Reorganization / Product Issues / /
Facility
Mason Temple / statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest / Memphis Labor Temple / Brown University / /
IndustryTerm
transportation / railroad car porters / city services / private contractor / metal tubs / food subsidies / /
NaturalFeature
Negro / /
Organization
Tennessee Supreme Court / American Federation of State / County and Municipal Employees / Teamsters Local / Retail Clerks Union / John Birch Society / Ku Klux Klan / Civil Rights Movement / City Commission / Republican Party / Harvard University / Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters / Brown University in Boston / Federal Bureau of Investigation / Memphis Police Intelligence Bureau / White House / school board / /
Person
Thomas Oliver / Pete Sisson / Barry Goldwater / Richard Nixon / Michael Honey / Robert Walker / James Murray / A. Phillip Randolph / James Lawson / William Ingram / Robert Welch / O.Z. Evers / Nathan Bedford Forrest / Dwight Eisenhower / Jesse Epps / James Patterson / Bill Lucy / Martin Luther King / John F. Kennedy / Earl Warren / Echol Cole / James O. Eastland / Jerry Wurf / James Loewen / Henry Loeb / Robert F. Kennedy / J. Edgar Hoover / Peter Edelman / /
PoliticalEvent
the primaries / /
Position
Mayor / president / Alabama Governor / General / black sanitation worker / founder / King / Professor / Executive / director for legislation and community affairs / private contractor / Director / associate director / Commissioner / national President / /
Product
garbage compactor / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / Mississippi / California / Tennessee / /
The Issue of Poverty The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike & The Poor People’s Campaign [In Going Down Jericho Road (W.W. Norton, New York, 2007), Professor Michael Honey explores the Memphis sanitation