Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike, however, caught the papers off guard. Memphis, as they boasted perhaps too often, had never had a serious racial disturbance. Partly because of this, the papers were rattled when it finally occurred. At first they tried to portray it as simply a labor issue, though the fact that 95% of the sanitationmen are Negroes obviously gave it a racial complexion. They covered the strike with reasonable thoroughness but tended to play up acts of violence. They regularly attacked King, saying he had no business in Memphis. They ignored Negro militants leading the strike; for a while, the Commercial Appeal...
...Commercial Appeal's strike coverage focused attention on other aspects of the paper that had long been commonplace. Negroes began complaining about segregated features of the newspaper such as the classified-ad section. They charged that Negroes are identified by race for crimes but whites are not. They also took exception to a daily cartoon titled "Hambone's Meditations," in which a shambling old Negro delivers such bromides as "Mos' folks, dey loses at de mouf whut dey teks in at de ears...
...amity they thought they had achieved has dissolved. What seemed reasonably liberal yesterday is denounced as paternalistic today. But if the Memphis papers have been unfairly singled out for attack, the grievances are small enough to have been remedied long ago. The shame is that it took a bitter strike and an assassination to bring them to attention...
...Since April 26 is the official day of the International Student Strike, we feel that this is an appropriate time, in light of recent events, to establish more communications with those...
...boycott of classes called by Afro in early March, and planned for today as part of an international student strike against the war, is being "de-emphasized" according to Suzanne Lynn '71, Afro spokesman...