Sentences with phrase «sanitation workers carrying»
A wall of sanitation workers carrying «I AM A MAN» placards and police in riot gear on the 28th; Dr. King returning to Memphis on the 3rd; giving his historic «Mountaintop» speech at the Mason Temple; and the memorial march to City Hall on the 8th are among his evocative, iconic images.
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Thus, «these huge debts need to be settled before effective delivery of services can be carried out» because these debts mean that the sanitation service providers argue, among other things, that «they needed fuel, they needed tires, they need to pay their workers so they were not able to collect the waste regularly the way we desire.»
As the months wore on, hundreds of sanitation workers took to the streets carrying signs reading, «I AM A MAN.»
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.»
Untitled (I Am a Man) is a reinterpretation of the signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 and made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march.
A reinterpretation of the actual signs that were carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, and which were made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march, this small, roughly made painting combines layers of history, meaning, and physical material in a dense, resonant object.