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This Isn't New York!
Mayor Henry Loeb said that Memphis was not New York when comparing wages of sanitation workers.
Creator: Sellers, Barney
Date: 1968
Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal
Collection: AFSCME Local 1733: Memphis, Tennessee Records
Citation
Sellers, Barney , “This Isn't New York!,” I Am A Man, accessed February 22, 2025, https://projects.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman/items/show/150.