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The Origins of "I Am A Man"

11/21/2015

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In 1968, the striking sanitation workers of Memphis carried signs declaring I AM A MAN. This statement answered a question asked by abolitionists and supporters of Civil Rights since the late 18th century.

Podcaster: Elizabeth

Further Reading

The Civil Rights Digital Library on the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968

Soujourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” December 1851

Reverend Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man,” September 1868

Anti-Slavery Medallion by Josiah Wedgwood

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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