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People hold signs that read "I Am A Man" outside Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
Standing in front of the former Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Memphis sanitation workers Elmore Nickelberry, 76, center, and his son, Terence, left, hold replicas of the placard used by strikers in Memphis, Tennessee. (Credit: Alamy Photos)