The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968 played an important role in bringing national attention to the plight of underpaid Black Americans.
Protesters marched wearing “I Am A Man” sandwich boards and signs, demanding that they be treated with dignity.
The signs became a rallying cry for the strikers.
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