At the strike, Smith wore an “I Am A Man” t-shirt as striking Kellogg’s workers held signs with those words made famous ...

“I AM A MAN!” Nickleberry, the Rev. Cleophus Smith, and Ozell Ueal, a few of the remaining veterans of the 1968 strike, shared in an interview how they, and the other brave sanitation workers ...

The visitors were of all ages. Some of the older people doubtless remembered the genesis of the "I Am a Man" slogan — the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike in which workers wore the signs ...

The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968 stands as a powerful moment in the history of labor and civil rights in the ...

He was one of the last strikers to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1968 Memphis sanitation worker's strike, made ...

The visitors are of all ages. Some of the older people doubtless remember the genesis of the “I Am a Man” slogan — the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike in which workers wore the signs to point ...

The visitors are of all ages. Some of the older people doubtless remember the genesis of the “I Am a Man” slogan – the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike in which workers wore the signs to point ...

Joe Calhoun lived in the attic of the Clayborn Temple in Memphis for three weeks in 1968 while working on the sanitation workers strike. The strike is commemorated with the I Am a Man Plaza at the ...

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, listening to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...