The Poor People’s Campaign: Echoes of 1968

“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.