Sentences with phrase «black sanitation workers»
Ligon took the text and poster format from twenty years earlier, from striking black sanitation workers in Memphis.
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Ligon has also lifted quotes, jokes, and poems from Ralph Ellison, Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Ernest C. Withers's indelible photograph of a 1968 strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in which each carries a sign reading «i am a man.»
Fifty years ago this month, black sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike to fight for their right to safe working conditions and for pay that was equal to their white counterparts.
On the last day of his life, Dr. King was supporting a controversial movement for fair wages and safe working conditions for black sanitation workers.