There are 4 article(s) tagged Elmore Nickelberry:

• January 2024

  • Guest Column: Celebrating Elmore Nickelberry’s life and impact

    “Elmore Nickelberry was a man who fought for dignity, respect, and so much more. And, I believe, he has so much to teach us still today.”

    By Richard C. Shadyac Jr. January 29, 2024

  • Sanford: Sanitation workers are pawns in a political tussle – again

    A $7 increase for enhanced trash collection stalled in a City Council vote. If the increase isn’t approved, 199 full-time Solid Waste employees will lose their jobs. 

    By Otis Sanford January 13, 2024

  • One of last two surviving 1968 sanitation workers dies

    In an NPR interview in 2018, Elmore Nickelberry said, “I knew I wasn’t no garbage man. I just worked in garbage.”

    By Bill Dries January 03, 2024

• August 2019

  • Sanford: Mayor mines campaign gold with Nickleberry endorsement

    An unassuming, 87-year-old, recently retired black sanitation worker provides a powerful and authentic endorsement of Jim Strickland.

    By Otis Sanford August 23, 2019