“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” 

To hear this NPR “Morning Edition” story, that aired June 19, click here.

The Step Up Communications Team Meeting is scheduled to meet 9a.m., June 19 at SEDA. For more information, please contact Brynn Grant at 912-447-8450.