Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker who marched with Martin Luther King, has died at 92

Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker who marched with Martin Luther King, has died at 92

In this March 15, 2018 photo, sanitation worker Elmore Nickleberry wears a cap with the slogan “I AM A MAN” in a room in his home that displays items commemorating the civil rights movement in Memphis, Tenn.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elmore Nickleberry, a longtime Memphis sanitation worker who participated in the pivotal 1968 strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city where the civil rights leader was killed, has died at age 92.

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