523 Geoffrey Chaucer (with Marion Turner) | A New Podcast About the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (with AFSCME President Lee Saunders)
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Marion Turner and Jeffrey Chaucer on the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968
Lee Saunders is the president of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Union. He's going to tell us about the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968, a pivotal moment in the labor movement,. The civil rights movement also played a role in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death by murder. Marion Turner will talk about her biography of Chaucer called Chaucer, a European Life.
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