After speaking at Harvard Law School at the program called “Pioneers of the Civil Rights and Labor Movement,” William Lucy, founder and president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, is presented the famous “I Am a Man” poster from the uprising of sanitation workers in Memphis during 1968. Co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Labor and Worklife Program, W.E.B. DuBois Institute and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute awards were presented to Norman Hill, President Emeritus of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Lucy and Sephira Shuttlesworth, widow of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who is recognized by historians as one of the pivotal leaders of the U.S. civil rights movement. The event also featured Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama — The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
