Thought for the Day Focus: April 2008 Archives

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike

  after 40 years

 (April 1968-April 2008)

Please take a moment to look at our display in the library foyer of books and photographs about the Memphis sanitation workers' strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The sanitation workers' message, illustrated by their "I am a man" signs, speaks eloquently of the human need for dignity and respect.

You might also be interested in reading Hampton Sides' (MUS class of 1980) memories & perspective of these events in the latest issue of Memphis magazine.  Here's a link to the article, titled "The Strike Zone": http://www.memphismagazine.com/gyrobase/Magazine/Content?oid=oid%3A41290 

Other items on display include:

Going down Jericho Road by Michael K. Honey, At the River I Stand by Joan Beifuss, I May Not Get There With You by Michael Eric Dyson, and Pictures Tell the Story by Ernest C. Withers.