He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis. Bill Lucy, Deaths (Obituaries), Organized Labor, Civil Rights and Liberties, Labor and Jobs, Black People, Strikes, Civil Rights Movement (1954-68), American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Memphis (Tenn) Read More
Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90
