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Posted by: Paul Burch on Jan 2, 2024

Elmore Nickelberry, a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died Saturday, Local Memphis reports. Nickelberry was one of the last surviving Memphis Sanitation Workers who went on strike for better working conditions in 1968 after two fellow workers were accidently killed. The strike drew King to Memphis where he marched in solidarity with the workers before being assassinated in April 1968. After the strike was settled, Nickleberry remained a sanitation worker for the city, retiring in 2018.