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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Initially, it was difficult for Memphis’ Black sanitation workers to organize in 1968. Some older workers did not want to strike despite the deaths of fellow workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker ...

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, 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 ...

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

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, in partnership with First Baptist Church of Longview, hosted a brunch to honor the ...