Herbert Parson, a Memphis sanitation worker for more than 45 years, was honored by former President Barack Obama for sacrifice in 1968 sanitation workers strike.

Near the end of the 19th century, Memphis found itself in an unenviable position. A series of yellow fever outbreaks had killed thousands of residents and ...

Joe Calhoun lived in the attic of the Clayborn Temple in Memphis for three weeks in 1968 while working on the sanitation workers strike ... to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched with Memphians against unsafe working conditions and unlivable wages for sanitation workers. Those workers continued the ...

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike ... period he worked adjacent to Rev ...

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers ... to celebrate MLK Day at state ...

Some of the older people doubtless remembered the genesis of the "I Am a Man" slogan — the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike ... adjacent to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil ...

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, listening to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement ...

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers ... to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...