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February 1 Categories: History

on February 1, 1968February 1, 1968 By Sheila Gallagher

Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker are crushed to death by a malfunctioning garbage truck. Their deaths lead to a strike that becomes a civil rights movement.

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