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Gilder Lehrman Document Number:
GLC06124
Title: I am a man
Author: Allied Printing (fl. 1968)
Year: 1968/04/04
Place: Memphis, Tennessee
Type of document: Broadside
Description: Printed by Allied Printing in large black letters on white posterboard. Refer to GLC05954 for a different printing of this poster.
Annotation: The phrase "I am a man" was used by Memphis sanitation workers and their supporters during their famous strike led by Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968. Most of the sanitation workers/strikers involved were African Americans who demanded suitable compensation and union recognition.
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