Pryor, DowningFaist, Thomas2018-09-102018-09-101982-05-04http://hdl.handle.net/10267/34135In this interview, Downing Pryor describes being the first President of the City Council in 1968 and how the new, inexperienced City Council struggled to excercize authority and put an end to the Sanitation Worker's Strike. He also recounts the King assassination and how it caused African American leadership to fragment in the city of Memphis.Oral historyInterviewsMemphis (Tenn.)Civil rightsMemphis City CouncilBlack LeadersIntegrationSanitation workersLoeb, Henry 1920-1992King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--AssassinationSound19820504_Downing_Pryor