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Deep. 200 feet wide. That issue prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the that meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway is just dirt and rocks. And with all the pressure from the water level so high. The concern. Especially yesterday. Was that the dirt and rock could collapse. And that would mean a 30 foot wall of water would come charging down this dirt hill. Some into the feather river. But tons and tons would keep coming downstream. Flooding towns as far south as m...

This is part three of a 10-part series on the first tenant movement in Memphis. Read part 2 here. The Texas-East McLemore rent strike in 1968 drew Memphis

One of the last striking sanitation workers of Memphis died on December 30th, aged 92 | Obituary

Nickleberry participated in the Sanitation Workers Strike and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights activist died in Memphis at 92.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elmore Nickelberry, a civil rights icon who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight for higher pay and better working conditions for sanitation workers, has died at the age of 92, according to his family. According to Nickelberry’s son, Terrence Nickleberry, his father’s cancer returned, and he went into […]