Fed up, they called a strike. Roughly 1,300 sanitation workers began marching through the streets of Memphis. They carried signs that read “I Am a Man,” with the “Am” underlined.

Twelve days later, frustrated by the city’s response to the latest event in a long pattern of neglect and abuse of its black employees, 1,300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went ...

The strike led to marches with demonstrators ... The next evening, King was assassinated in Memphis. Some of the surviving sanitation workers are still working for the city of Memphis today.

The public works department refused to compensate their families. The Memphis sanitation workers’ strike would win the support of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. — and lead to ...

More: Nickleberry faced down violence in the 1968 strike. In 1990, it claimed his baby girl More: AFSCME remembers deaths that sparked Memphis sanitation strike; changed the world The coverage of ...

A sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tenn., would end up being King's last cause. As the nation marks 50 years since the civil rights leader was assassinated, we look back at King's final speech.

I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers were on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that ...

OPINION: For the 55th anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike that was the focus of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last campaign, a podcast will tell the story of the workers' heroic stand against ...

The oppressive and grueling work conditions he set worsened when he was elected Memphis mayor for a second term in November 1967. The deaths of Coles and Walker triggered a sanitation strike Feb ...

“When Dr. King ... came on TV and said, 'I need the residents of Memphis to help the sanitation workers because they are suffering,'" Pinson said. "I remember that word, 'Suffering.' I was ...

Nine days after going on strike, collection workers from both the South Memphis and Millington landfills who are unionized under the Teamsters Local 667 Union say they have reached a "tentative ...

MEMPHIS — On a rainy afternoon a half-century ago, the accidental deaths of two African-American sanitation workers ... some 1,300 employees to launch a strike that convulsed the city.