View looking southeast at the exterior of the Second Presbyterian Church, now known as Clayborn Temple, on the corner of Pontatoc Avenue and Hernando Street in Memphis, Tennessee, 1974.

In 1968, the church served as the headquarters for a sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, where he was assassinated. Originally Published: May 29 ...

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In 1968, the church served as the headquarters for a sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, where he was assassinated.

It later brought in civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in 1968. King supported over 1,000 Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest the inhumane treatment they ...