Posted inEconomic Justice, Sanitation Workers

Mr. Nickleberry’s neighborhood

After the applause ends and the red carpets are rolled up for the sanitation workers who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during their Memphis strike, Elmore Nickleberry will return home to his street in the Douglass community. Nickleberry, 86, has been the most outspoken rank-and-file veteran of the struggle, providing vivid descriptions of […]