Monday 15 January 2018

The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr.: A ?city? for the poor on the National Mall

The 1968 demonstration was to be the centerpiece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign, and more than 3,000 antipoverty activists would come to live in "Resurrection City" on the National Mall. But as other tumultuous events roiled the country that year, the protest became "a forgotten part of our history," one resident said.
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