“We wanted to be treated as men.”
Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers remember why they went on strike as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.
Recorded in Memphis, TN.
Category: Witness
“He really talked that night.”
Retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech.
Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.
“I couldn't understand why all the black men had signs that said 'I AM A MAN.'”
Reverend George Turks, Jr. remembers witnessing the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike as a teenager. Click here to see a photo from the strike.
Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.
“A policeman was coming down the street...”
Ella Owens (L) tells her daughter, Lynn Reed, about participating in a march during the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.
Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.
“When Dr. King was assassinated, I was on the air.”
Herb Kneeland (L) tells his son Martavius Jones about being a disc jockey at WDIA in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Recorded in Memphis, TN.
“The pilot told us over the PA, 'It's going to be the roughest landing you've ever experienced.'”
Martha Conant (L) tells her daughter-in-law, Brittany, about surviving the crash of United Airlines Flight 232.
Recorded in Greeley, CO.
