NOTES
- Otis Sanford, “Setting the Record Straight, 40 Years Later,” Commercial Appeal, March 16, 2008.
- Jerome Wright, “Did the Commercial Appeal Fail in Fairly Covering the City's Biggest Civil-Rights Era Story?,” Commercial Appeal, March 16, 2008.
- Michael K. Honey, Going down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), 488.
- “Newspapers: Hurt Pride in Memphis,” Time, April 26, 1968.
- Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998), 230; and Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail (Doubleday: New York, 2010), 144, 202.
- “King Challenges Court Restraint, Vows to March,” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968.
- “March Control is Essential,” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968.
- Thomas Harrison Baker, The Memphis Commercial Appeal: The History of a Southern Newspaper (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971), 316–18.
- Ibid, 321.
- Honey, Going down Jericho Road, 129.
- Wayne Dowdy, interview by Thomas J. Hrach, July 12, 2013. Dowdy is author of Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South.
- Thomas J. Hrach, “Insults for Sale: The 1957 Memphis Newspaper Boycott,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2013): 28–49.
- “Award Fulfills Goal for Ahlgren,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 22, 1968.
- Dowdy interview.
- Frank Ahlgren interview, Aug. 14, 1972, Sanitation Strike Archival Project, University of Memphis.
- “Newspapers: Hurt Pride in Memphis.”
- Ahlgren interview.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Honey, Going down Jericho Road, 364.
- “Memphis' Wildcat Garbage ‘Strike,’” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 13, 1968.
- “Garbage Strike Vignette,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 14, 1968.
- “Garbage, Law and People,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 15, 1968.
- “Loeb Takes Right Course,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 16, 1968.
- Honey, Going down Jericho Road, 129.
- “Garbage!!,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 16, 1968.
- “Memphis Is Being Used,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 18, 1968.
- “That Critter Isn't Helping a Bit,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 18, 1968.
- “Garbage Union Tries Switch,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 20, 1968.
- “Beyond the Bounds of Tolerance,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 23, 1968.
- Honey, Going down Jericho Road, 197–98.
- “It's the Mayor's Job,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 23, 1968.
- “The March on Main,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 24, 1968.
- “Time for a Breakthrough,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 25, 1968.
- “Practicing Restraint,” Commercial Appeal, March 7, 1968.
- Guy Northrup, “Holloman Uses Restraint, Firmness,” Commercial Appeal, March 1, 1968.
- William B. Street, “How Race Politics Enters a Strike,” Commercial Appeal, Feb. 28, 1968.
- “Courts and the Strike,” Commercial Appeal, March 8, 1968.
- “Time for Council to Move,” Commercial Appeal, March 16, 1968.
- “An Honest Beginning,” Commercial Appeal, March 2, 1968.
- “King's Eye on Washington,” Commercial Appeal, March 20, 1968.
- “King's Credibility Gap,” Commercial Appeal, March 30, 1968.
- “Who? Me?” Commercial Appeal, March 30, 1968.
- “This City of Good Abode,” Commercial Appeal, March 29, 1968.
- “The Guest Writer: Memphis Blues (from the Dallas Morning News), Commercial Appeal, April 2, 1968.
- “Take the March to Court,” Commercial Appeal, April 3, 1968.
- “March Control Is Essential,” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968.
- “Mobs Must Not Rule,” Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968.
- “Make This a Prayerful Day,” Commercial Appeal, April 7, 1968.
- “Quiet March, Loud Talk,” Commercial Appeal, April 9, 1968.
- “Now Let Us Move Ahead,” Commercial Appeal, April 17, 1968.
- “Man That's Music!,” Commercial Appeal, April 17, 1968.
- “Prove That Memphis Cares,” Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1968.
- “Setting the Record Straight, 40 Years Later.”
- Joan Turner Beifuss, At the River I Stand (Memphis, Tenn.: St. Luke's Press, 1985), 266–67.
- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), 366, 389.
- Hank Klibanoff, interview by Thomas J. Hrach, July 12, 2013.
- Honey, Going down Jericho Road, 404.
- Ralph McDaniel, ““Letters to the Editor: It's Not Too Late,” Commercial Appeal, April 10, 1968.