I already did that. Still waiting for your version of events. I'd especially like to hear how the march ended.
there WAS a LOT of chanting/SHOUTING & a FEW "fists thrown" & some MINOR "pushing & shoving", by both PRO & ANTI union people. i saw NO violence of any other sort. period. end of story.
i had "turned my ankle" (i had stepped in a "pothole".) rather severely toward the end of the march & "had to be helped to the car", after sitting down for a while. i THINK i would have seen any REAL problems had there been much/any, but perhaps not, as i'm just ONE person.
SOME PRO & ANTI union folks were arrested, i understand, by the MPD.
i suspect, but do not KNOW for sure, that the arrests were at the order of the "bigwigs of Memphis", who definitely did NOT want the strike/demonstrations/march/anything else to be SUCESSFUL. the "city" wanted to continue to pay 50-90 cents an man-hour for the garbage to be picked up (that was the city "father's" agenda!) rather than a living/DECENT wage!
after they "went & got the car" & loaded me into it, we simply went to eat & then drove back to the motel outside of town to spend the night. IF there was ANY serious violence, i did NOT see any! i believe what you've "sourced" was "much ado about nothing" or at least about LITTLE! (as i said earlier, the FBI, the "city" & the MPD definitely DID, imVho, want trouble.)
the NAACP/SCLC/SSL wanted the march to go off "smoothly". frankly, i do NOT know if "strict NONviolence" was the goal of the union and/or the SNCC (SNCC "had the reputation" in those days of being violent!)
wish i had more to offer, but i don't.
free dixie,sw