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History > USA > Civil rights > 1968
Poor people campaign
A mother and her children at the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. 1968.
Photograph: Jill Freedman, Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery
Finding Inspiration in the Struggle at Resurrection City NYT Oct. 24, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/
A family at the Poor People’s Campaign, Washington DC, 1968, an effort to gain economic justice for the poor of the United States
Robert Houston: witness to injustice and social change – in pictures The American photographer Robert Houston, who memorably documented the civil rights movement, poverty and homelessness in the United States, has died aged 86. Born in East Baltimore in 1935, he was inspired by his friend and fellow photographer Gordon Parks to start work for the Black Star agency and then at Life magazine, for which he notably covered the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. Here is a selection of his photographs mainly from those years G Thu 6 May 2021 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/06/
“Poor People’s Campaign,” 1968
Photograph: Jill Freedman
Jill Freedman, Photographer Who Lingered in the Margins, Dies at 79
She immersed herself in the rougher precincts of American life for months at a time, portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic. NYT Oct. 9, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
Sidney Poitier at the Poor People’s Campaign at “Resurrection City,” a shantytown set up by protestors in Washington in 1968.
Photograph: Chester Sheard Keystone,Hulton Archive, via Getty Images
Tributes to Sidney Poitier Pour in From Hollywood and Beyond President Biden, Former President Barack Obama, Harry Belafonte, Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey and others paid tribute to Mr. Poitier.
Flags in the Bahamas, where he grew up, were lowered to half-staff. NYT January 7, 2022
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spring 1968
Poor people campaign / march
In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring.
The group planned to demand that President Lyndon Johnson and Congress help the poor get jobs, health care and decent homes.
Campaign organizers intended the campaign to be a peaceful gathering of poor people from communities across the nation.
They would march through the capital and visit various federal agencies in hopes of getting Congress to pass substantial anti-poverty legislation.
They planned to stay until some action was taken.
But weeks before the march was to take place, King was assassinated.
His widow, Coretta, and a cadre of black ministers, including the Revs. Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson, decided they would pick up where King had left off and that the Poor People's March on Washington would go forward.
Thousands of people participated in the march on May 12, 1968. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91626373 - June 19, 2008
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often described poverty and prejudice as related enemies, and in the last few months of his life, he called publicly for a national demonstration by the poor that would “confront the power structure massively.”
The Poor People’s Campaign was an effort to do precisely that, not with just a march but with an extended occupation of the National Mall in Washington.
Organized by Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — and led by Ralph Abernathy after Dr. King’s assassination — the campaign brought around 3,000 people from all over the country to a spit of land that would soon be drenched by rains, and filled with wooden shanties and varied attempts at utopian do-it-yourself collectivism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/
"We're coming to Washington in a poor people's campaign," King announced at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968.
"I was in Marks, Miss., the other day, which is in Quitman County, the poorest county in the United States.
And I tell you I saw hundreds of black boys and black girls walking the streets with no shoes to wear."
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/13/
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/
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https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/07/
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