22 January 2017: "You know, if you bend your back, people will ride your back. But if you stand up straight, people can’t ride your back. So that’s what we did. We just stood up straight and said, I am a man." --Taylor Rogers, an African-American sanitation worker on the 1968 strike in Memphis. Here him and his co-worker, Elmore Nickleberry, tell their story on this week's StoryCorps podcast.
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