‘I Am a Man’-civil rights leader, pioneer Bill Lucy dies at age 90

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – Bill Lucy, the prolific labor and civil rights leader, has died at age 90. Lucy popularized the phrase “I Am a Man,” which became the slogan of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. He said of the historic, effective four-word phrase, “While it means…

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