"I AM A MAN" 1968 "MEMPHIS" SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE CIVIL RIGHTS POSTER.
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22x28" on stock. Copyright 1968 Emerson Graphics (San Francisco). "Tea lautec litho" in small print in bottom left corner. Moderate edge, otherwise light handling. Extremely Fine. Will frame to Exc. Following the deaths of two African American sanitation workers due to the city's neglect and unsafe working conditions, 1,300 African American sanitation workers went on strike in protest beginning in mid-February, 1968. In April, Martin Luther King came to Memphis to speak out in support of the strike, stating: "We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through." King was assassinated the night after this speech. The sanitation workers ultimately negotiated a deal with the city and the strike ended on April 16, 1968. A historic civil rights and labor poster.
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