16N68 tells the story of a Black teen looking forward to turning 16 and living the life of any fiftheen year old during the late sixties. The prom, sock hops, basketball games and dating boys. This hope was over- shadowed in the Spring of 1968 when two Memphis Sanitation Workers were killed as they sat outside on the back of a truck to eat. They were not allowed to share the inside employee lounge due to segregation. 1300 Black men said "No More" and walked off the job demanding better treatment and better wages. The average income for a Sanitation Worker was about S1.65 a hour. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was asked to come to Memphis to assist with boycotting of the downtown stores and to shed attention on the demands of the Sanitation Workers. However before he was to come, Dr. King sent word to the clergymen to involved more youths to the movement. This is when Hester Johnson, a 16 year old high school student became involved; learning all the things she deemed important like chasing boys, talking on the phone, school activities and turning 16 weren't nearly as important as the time she spent participating in this boycott and marching downtown. "I wanted to help anyway I could as a teen."