Henry Loeb person
also: Loeb, the mayor
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Henry Loeb headed
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“Basically, just to give you the setting, in 1968, Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was about labor and civil rights. There was about 1,300 predominantly African American workers employed by the city's public works department. The mayor at …”
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Basically, just to give you the setting, in 1968, Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was about labor and civil rights. There was about 1,300 predominantly African American workers employed by the city's public works department. The mayor at …
▶ 1:58
the unionization of the workers. And he had held positions in the city over that department. So he was actually responsible for a lot of the really bad conditions in that particular department. He took the mayor's position at the beginning …
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A disaster. The police under the mayor was unleashed on the peaceful marchers. They didn't fight back. It resulted in at least one death, numerous injuries, and multiple arrests. And they put the city under a curfew. King returned on April …