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The entrance of the headquarters of Local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on March 5, 2018. It includes wreaths honoring Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers whose deaths in 1968 led to the sanitation workers’ strike in which laborers carried “I Am a Man” signs. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks