Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers

“We wanted to be treated as men.”

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Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers remember why they went on strike as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN.



Taylor Rogers

Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers

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Memphis, Tennessee, TN, Southerners, Griot, African Americans, African-Americans, Black Americans, Martin Luther King Junior, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, MLK Jr., Civil Rights Movement, sanitation workers, race, racism, segregation, discrimination, marching, protests, racists, hatred, hate, I AM A MAN, strikers, picketers, violence, workers’ rights, working conditions, 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, equality, unions, unionizing, human rights, justice, dignity, black-white relations, compensation, AFSCME

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