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The 1969 Oklahoma City Garbage Strike

Description: Article covers the Oklahoma City worker's strike in 1969 when sanitation workers, mostly African Americans, went on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The article expounds on the reasons for the strike, the attention it received locally and nationally from African American politicians and organizations, and the results of the resolve of the strikers and their supporters.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0118.0360]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Northwest speech coach Mrs. C. Steve Burton, right, and student Donna Cordell their awards. - The pressure of the National Speech Tournament is over, but for two Northwest speech students training still goes on."
Date: 1969
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0112.0678]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three of Green Beret officers freed of murder charges give "thumbs up" sign outside barracks at long Binh before starting trip back to the U. S."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0433]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jeff H. Williams, lawyer, humorist and philosopher, will speak at the convention banquet Monday night. (see also; Williams, Jeff H. / Chickasha Rotarian)"
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0558]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Delivering the commencement address will be Dallas banker Ben Wooten, graduate of North Texas State and holder of honorary law degrees from Baylor and the University of Arkansas."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1431.0118]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A graph which charted the "heartbeat" of launch flight for the Apollo 11 mission was used by NASA lecturers, from left, Chirs Zinn, Tommy Keaton and Ed Jiongo."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0197]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "T. Robert Streets, elected president of the Association of Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors of Oklahoma City for the 1969 term, it was announced Wednesday."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1257.0243]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union Lawrence Speiser and Florence B. Robin, executive director of the National Capital Area Civil Liberties Umion. remark at a news conference Friday on the denial of a permit for a mass march to protest the Vietnam War."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1372.0740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. G. Rainey Williams, professor and chief of thoracic surgery at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, reviewed the present status of tissue transplantation and took a look at future prospects for effective organ graft."
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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