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N.C. Highway Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony "Sanitation Workers Strike"

  • BTW Community Center 727 Pennsylvania Avenue Rocky Mount, NC 27801 United States (map)

Sponsored by The Phoenix Historical Society, Inc. African American History of Edgecombe County

"Led by African American workers and civil rights coalition, 1978, against sanitation dept., here. It reshaped the labor movement in N.C."

Earlier Event: September 4
1st Medicare for All Healthcare Speak Out Assembly
Later Event: September 8
Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble Meeting/Rehearsal