# Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90

- Published: 2024-09-29T00:04:14Z
- Updated: 2026-07-07T23:18:15Z
- Section: jobs
- Language: English (en)
- Source: The New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/us/bill-lucy-dead.html
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He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.

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