57: I Am A Man

April 4, 2008 at 5:35pm

On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, TN. He was in that city to lend support to sanitation workers--who were mostly African American--protesting terrible working conditions and low wages.

Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers were two of the 1300 sanitation workers to walk off the job in 1968. They both came to StoryCorps in Memphis to remember why they joined that strike.

In another story, Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember being at Mason Temple the night Dr. King delivered his final speech.

You can hear more stories about the strike and the immediate aftermath of Dr. King's assassination at www.storycorps.net

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