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 This is part five of a 10-part series on the first tenant movement in Memphis. Read part 4 here. Children work on erecting a playground using

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

<p><em>Sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, had been on strike since February 12, 1968, and negotiations with city officials were at a dead end. When Dr. King announced his intention to march with the strikers as part of his new Poor People&rsquo;s Campaign, thousands rallied to the cause. But the deepening divide in the civil rights movement between supporters of nonviolence and supporters of direct action was about to be exposed in a city with a long history of troubled race relations.</e

Jesse Epps was instrumental in the fight for social and economic justice. He helped organize the sanitation workers' strike and negotiated wages.