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Walter Bailey, 2007

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Bailey, Walter
Jeffries, Joshua
Smith, Tiffani
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Oral history, Interviews, Civil rights, Crossroads to Freedom, Millington (Tenn.), South Memphis (Memphis, Tenn.), Race relations, Politics, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968, Law, Southern University and A & M College
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20070806_Walter_Bailey
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Crossroads to Freedom Oral History Collection
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This is an interview with Walter Bailey, who is currently an attorney with the Walter Bailey Law Firm. As a college student at Southern University during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement he was a participant in the sit-in movement. After attending law school, Bailey had the unique opportunity to serve as legal counsel for Dr. Martin Luther King during the Sanitation Workers Strike.