Travel Trip Civil Rights Museum
This photo released by The National Civil Rights Museum shows the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968 exhibit symbolizes the racial tension that polarized the city which led to riots and the occupation of 4,000 National Guardsmen. The strike became the impetus for Dr. King’s visits to Memphis to organize a non-violent march as part of the Poor Peoples Campaign. (AP Photo/National Civil Rights Museum,Lisa Waddell Buser)
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