Mayor Henry Loeb

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Mayor Henry Loeb was the segregationist mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, whose opposition to labor and civil rights demands made him a central and controversial figure during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
mayor
conflict Martin Luther King Jr.'s support for the sanitation strike
Memphis sanitation workers
civil rights leaders in Memphis
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
eventAssociatedWith Memphis sanitation workers' strike
surface form: 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike

civil rights protests in Memphis in 1968
familyName Loeb
givenName Henry
ideology opposition to desegregation policies
knownFor refusal to negotiate key demands of striking sanitation workers
refusal to recognize the sanitation workers' union in 1968
name Henry Loeb
notableFor opposition to civil rights demands in Memphis
opposition to labor demands of Memphis sanitation workers
role in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike
occupation businessman
politician
officeJurisdiction Memphis
surface form: City of Memphis
placeOfActivity Memphis
surface form: Memphis, Tennessee
politicalAlignment segregationist
positionHeld Mayor of Memphis
residence Memphis, Tennessee, United States
surface form: Memphis, Tennessee
roleInEvent central figure in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike
mayor of Memphis during the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
stanceOnIssue opposed collective bargaining for Memphis sanitation workers
opposed union recognition for Memphis sanitation workers
resisted civil rights reforms in Memphis municipal government
stateOfActivity Tennessee
timePeriodOfActivity 1960s

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