History Extra for October 30, 2024
On February 1, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker died when they took shelter from a torrential rainstorm in the back of the dilapidated city garbage truck they were operating and the compactor malfunctioned, crushing them to death.
The deaths were the final straw for the city’s 1300 Black sanitation workers. A new …
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