In March 1968, striking black sanitation workers marched along the streets of Memphis demanding higher wages and better working conditions. They carried signs emblazoned with “I AM A MAN” to express their anger at not…
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I have this image in my head of taking my grandmother to have lunch at the Woolworth’s in Macon, GA, in the 1970s, near where my family lived. I don’t recall what we ordered, but the…