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Strikers picking up last paycheck

Strikers picking up their last paycheck on February 20, Scott Street Sanitation Station. Benny Booker, Willie Cartwright and Joe Jackson (left to right).
Creator: Sellers, Barney
Source: I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Citation
Sellers, Barney , “Strikers picking up last paycheck,” I Am A Man, accessed April 2, 2025, https://projects.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman/items/show/156.