"I AM a Man"
I want you to think back to April of 1968. Many of America's cities burned, because Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.
Perhaps you even remember why Dr. King was in Memphis - to help African-American sanitation workers who were on strike after two of their brethren, who had sought shelter during a rain storm in a compactor, were crushed to death.
The words titling this post were those on the signs of the 1,300 sanitation workers.
The man who led them, and to whose assistance Dr. King had come, was Taylor Rodgers.
He passed away on November 12. He spent many years after the strike in Memphis as an organizer for AFSCME - the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
AFSCME has put up this blog post, titled simply "Remembering Taylor Rogers."
Let me offer only two paragraphs:
During the 64-day struggle, Rogers and his fellow workers were beaten, gassed and jailed – along