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1998., Bridgestone Books Call No: 628.4 42 023 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Community helpersSummary Note: Explains the work of garbage collectors, including their functions, tools, and training.
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-- Treasury of 25 storybook classics :[2009], Juvenile, Weston Woods Studios ; distributed by New Video Call No: 791.43 75 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic storybook treasuresSummary Note: Live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup. Follow Mr. Gilly around Trashy Town until his truck is full of glorious garbage. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel out of business until he finds just the job to prove their worth. An old tricycle is mistaken for trash, but just before being crushed for scrap metal, it magically speeds away on an adventure through town.
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By Bausum, Annc2012., Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Call No: 323 BAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strike.
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[2018], Primary, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: 331.892 8135393 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
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Juvenile Call No: 331 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book * Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books "(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
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c2016., Primary, PowerKids Press Call No: ENF 628.4 42 023 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Helping the community.Summary Note: Describes garbage collectors’ duties such as collecting garbage, keeping streets clean, driving garbage trucks, and sending garbage to landfills.