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The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker. [1] [2] The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Department of Public Works as they demanded higher wages, time and a half overtime, dues check-off, safety measures, and pay for the rainy days when they ...
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Memphis is a city in and the county seat of Scotland County, on the northern border of Missouri, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , its population was 1,731. [ 5 ] U.S. Highway 136 passes near Memphis, which is east of Lancaster and west of Kahoka .
Scotland County was the scene of three notable engagements during the American Civil War.The first happened at Etna on July 21, 1861. The 1st Northeast Missouri Home Guards under Colonel David Moore with assistance from additional units from Iowa and Illinois attacked pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard (MSG) forces using Etna as a training and resupply point.
Missouri Route 146 forms the eastern and northern edge of the CDP and leads southeast 8 miles (13 km) to Trenton, the Grundy County seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Leisure Lake CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km 2), of which 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 5.10%, is water. [4]
As of the census [6] of 2010, there were 237 people, 101 households, and 62 families living in the village. The population density was 1,030.4 inhabitants per square mile (397.8/km 2).
Gentry County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,162. [1] Its county seat is Albany. [2] The county was organized February 14, 1841 [3] and named for General Richard Gentry [4] of Boone County, who fell in the Seminole War in 1837.
Bollinger County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 10,567. [ 1 ] The county seat , largest and only city, is Marble Hill . [ 2 ]