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Jul 21, 2020 · With the slogan, "I am a man," workers in Memphis sought financial justice in a strike that fatefully became Martin Luther King Jr.'s final cause.
- Colette Coleman
Feb 12, 2018 · ‘I Am a Man’: The ugly Memphis sanitation workers’ strike that led to MLK’s assassination. After two men were crushed in a garbage truck, more than 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers went on...
Feb 24, 2018 · When the Reverend James Lawson shouted “ I am a man,” fifty years ago today, thousands of Memphis garbage strikers first echoed him—then millions of Americans did. Tragically, James Lawson’s...
The Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., went to Memphis to support the sanitation workers. He marched with them and made speeches. During the marches, many workers wore signs that read “I Am A Man.” This showed that they were fighting for equality, dignity, and respect.
New videos feature Rev. James Lawson and T.O. Jones, who courageously waged the battle on behalf of striking sanitation workers. The iconic strikers with the "I Am a Man" signs and the garbage truck from the original exhibition are here.
I Am a Man is a declaration of civil rights and workers’ rights, often used as a declaration of independence against oppression and against exploitation. The phrase was most notably used among striking union worker advocates and the Civil Rights Movement at the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968, with "I Am a Man!"
Mar 28, 2018 · Of all the pictures taken by civil rights photographer Ernest Withers over more than 50 years, the group of striking sanitation workers remains his ultimate image, saturated with hope and despair, a symbol of every struggle where the goal is basic human dignity.
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