Today in Southern labor history, we remember the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ strike. On February 1, 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Frustrated by the city’s lack of response, low wages, and dangerous working conditions, 1,300 Black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike. As striking workers carried signs through the streets reading “I Am a Man,” 4,000 National Guardsmen and police ca
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Today in Southern labor history, on January 31, we remember the Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938. In 1938, San Antonio’s Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant workers who worked in the city’s booming Pecan industry walked off the job on strike to protest the dangerous working conditions and low wages. The strike consisted of about 12,000 pecan shellers, mostly (Hispanic) Latine women, led by Emma Tenayuca, of the Texas Workers Alliance. The pecan shellers led a peaceful stri
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