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 ...
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Last surviving sanitation worker from 1968 strike passes awayA Memphis pastor who was the last surviving sanitation worker whose ... At the strike, Smith wore an “I Am A Man” t-shirt as ...
Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two black sanitation workers in Memphis ... signs emblazoned with the now-iconic phrase, "I AM A MAN." In their minds, they were not just fighting for higher ...
He was one of the last strikers to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1968 Memphis sanitation worker's strike, made ...
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 out their humanity in ...
Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike ... draped around their necks that proclaim, “I Am a Man.” ...
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 ...
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