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The phrase was most notably used among striking union worker advocates and the Civil Rights Movement at the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968, with "I Am a Man!" signs used to argue for respect and adequate pay. [1]
Protesters marched wearing “I Am A Man” sandwich boards, demanding that they be treated with dignity. The signs, says Estes, “became a rallying cry for the movement.”
New videos feature Rev. James Lawson and T.O. Jones, who courageously waged the battle on behalf of striking sanitation workers. The iconic strikers with the "I Am a Man" signs and the garbage truck from the original exhibition are here. Film documenting the sanitation strike is projected upon the garbage truck.
28 Μαρ 2018 · Of all the pictures taken by civil rights photographer Ernest Withers over more than 50 years, the group of striking sanitation workers remains his ultimate image, saturated with hope and despair, a symbol of every struggle where the goal is basic human dignity.
18 Αυγ 2020 · For Civil Rights leaders and the clergy, “I Am A Man” confronted the plantation mentality that viewed African Americans as servile and incapable of making their own decisions. They connected the strike to national efforts for social justice (Skool 2001).
19 Ιαν 2018 · As the protesters walked, some handed out flyers, flashed peace signs, and held candles. Their chanting was so loud that they could be heard inside the executive mansion.
Yet in 1963, one hundred years after the signing of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, America had not dealt with racist policies that failed to grant Black Americans equal access to jobs, fair pay, voting rights, fair housing, and an end to segregation.
