1,300 Men, in collaboration with The Root

In 1968, 1,300 African- American sanitation workers in Memphis demanded that the world treat them as fully human.

Their courage, dignity, love and persistence during that fateful 65-day strike, meant their children and grandchildren have found opportunities to become entrepreneurs, academics, corporate, medical and non-profit professionals, and more. A few even work in today’s sanitation department, but with much-improved conditions, because of the fight their fathers and mothers led, and Martin Luther King joined, fifty years ago.

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