Henry Loeb; Memphis Mayor at Time King Was Slain

Henry Loeb, 71, the Memphis mayor who tried to break a sanitation workers’ strike during which Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. A self-described segregationist, Loeb was in his second term as mayor when Memphis sanitation workers, most of whom were black, walked off the job in 1968. King went to Memphis to participate in the strikers’ rallies and was shot to death April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel. The strike was settled eight days later. On Tuesday in Memphis after a stroke.