I am a man

“I am a man” was the slogan of a march that Martin Luther King, Jr. was to lead in Memphis, Tennessee, the day after his assassination on April 4, 1968. He had come to Memphis to support the sanitation workers' strike. who wanted better safety conditions and a living wage. In February, two workers were crushed to death when a garbage truck malfunctioned. By this point in the decade, the major legal milestones of civil rights had been achieved: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But there were still great economic and social injustices that Dr. King hoped to address. with his Poor People's Campaign.