lengthy and organized strike of black garbage workers joined union of sanitation workers Memphis sanitation strike who were on strike fights for access to unions Memphis http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/memphis-v-mlk/ resulting strike support of a strike by sanitation workers striking sanitation workers National Archives who were on strike Memphis sanitation strike http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/memphis-v-mlk/ Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers Memphis Memphis, Tennessee The movement behind the strike started earlier that year http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/memphis-v-mlk/