| Zusammenfassung: | The struggle in Memphis is most often portrayed through the iconic images of the 1968 sanitation strike and the subsequent death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Local newspapers, primarily the Commercial Appeal and Memphis Press-Scimitar, covered the sanitation strike throughout the duration, but ran stories in support of mayor Henry Loeb's obstructionist stance and against the formation of a union. The visual archive comprised of the photographs taken for local press publication is now housed in various local library, museum, and personal collections. Many of them have never been published. This archive includes well-known iconic images that have come to represent the Civil Rights Movement; less often studied, yet published photographs; and unseen excess photographs that were taken in succession with others during significant events. The images expose a lineage of various African American responses to oppressive forces, along with cultural expressions that emerge and are transformed out of changing social, political, and economic circumstance.
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