• Thumbnail for Poor People's Campaign
    The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was...
    78 KB (10,017 words) - 21:31, 7 January 2024
  • Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival is an American anti-poverty campaign led by William Barber II and Liz Theoharis. According...
    14 KB (1,043 words) - 21:08, 2 March 2024
  • involved with African-American civil rights organizations in the Poor People's Campaign during the late 1960s in Washington, D.C. In 1967,Martin Luther...
    18 KB (2,253 words) - 03:44, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quitman County, Mississippi
    Louis and Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. originally wanted the Poor People's Campaign to start in Quitman County because of the intense and visible economic...
    23 KB (1,939 words) - 14:08, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Barber II
    William Barber II (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
    "a new 'Poor People's Campaign'", named Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival in honour of the original 1968 campaign founded by...
    22 KB (1,945 words) - 14:16, 6 February 2024
  • The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), also called the "Poor People’s Army", is a human rights activism group in the United States...
    7 KB (853 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
  • publication's history, a special edition devoted to documenting the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. The Quaker Church financed the issue, and 100...
    22 KB (3,086 words) - 19:27, 8 January 2024
  • Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977; second edition 1979) is a book about social movements by the American academics and political...
    12 KB (1,376 words) - 06:28, 16 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Martin Luther King Jr.
    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Poor People's Campaign)
    planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. James...
    280 KB (28,154 words) - 01:30, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Leaders within the SCLC confirmed that they would carry on the Poor People's Campaign that year despite the loss of King. Some black leaders argued the...
    63 KB (6,815 words) - 09:09, 1 April 2024
  • Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (category Living people)
    public faith for the common good through Moral Mondays and the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. In his 2008 book Free to Be...
    10 KB (842 words) - 06:09, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liz Theoharis
    Liz Theoharis (category Living people)
    theologian who is the co-chair (along with William Barber II) of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, and the Director of the Kairos...
    16 KB (1,522 words) - 01:58, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Protest camp
    protest camp held in May 1968 in Washington, D.C. as part of the Poor People's Campaign. In the United Kingdom publicity around the 1982 Greenham Common...
    2 KB (247 words) - 13:18, 20 March 2024
  • Teresa Hord Owens (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    Since her election, she has appeared at rallies and events of the Poor People's Campaign, guided the Disciples through the COVID-19 Pandemic, and facilitated...
    4 KB (375 words) - 14:08, 16 June 2023
  • A. D. King (category Poor People's Campaign)
    deceased brother's role, although he did continue to be active in the Poor People's Campaign and in other work on behalf of SCLC. After Martin's death, King...
    11 KB (1,150 words) - 17:48, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marian Wright Edelman
    Marian Wright Edelman (category Poor People's Campaign)
    she continued her work and contributed to the organizing of the Poor People's Campaign of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership...
    23 KB (2,027 words) - 03:20, 7 April 2024
  • Textile Employees, the Worker Rights Consortium, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Telecommunications...
    52 KB (6,689 words) - 21:34, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juneteenth
    Christian Leadership Conference made June 19 the "Solidarity Day of the Poor People’s Campaign". In the subsequent revival, large celebrations in Minneapolis and...
    92 KB (7,877 words) - 15:43, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Poor People's Campaign)
    —who spoke for and on behalf of the laborers, maids, farmhands, and working poor who made up the bulk of the black population. Many of these traditional leaders...
    49 KB (5,724 words) - 19:51, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson (category Poor People's Campaign)
    aides disputed. In the wake of King's death, Jackson worked on SCLC's Poor People's Crusade in Washington, D.C., and was credited with managing its 15-acre...
    215 KB (20,361 words) - 19:53, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amy Jo Hutchison
    Amy Jo Hutchison (category Poor People's Campaign)
    insurance program. In 2018, Hutchison was one of the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign in West Virginia, during a national effort to conduct forty days...
    9 KB (809 words) - 20:34, 10 March 2024
  • humanitarian concern." For King, who began to organize the multi-racial Poor People's Campaign just weeks before his April 1968 assassination, human rights required...
    32 KB (4,136 words) - 17:25, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Native Americans in the United States
    Americans also participated the Poor People's Campaign in 1968. The NIYC were very active supporters of the Poor People's Campaign unlike the National Congress...
    336 KB (34,228 words) - 05:00, 13 April 2024
  • Gerald. The last crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. ISBN 9780813333847. Risen, Clay...
    7 KB (812 words) - 02:56, 17 March 2023
  • document. In October 2021, The Gateway Pundit used a study by the Poor People's Campaign to falsely claim that Democrats had used low-income voters to steal...
    87 KB (7,355 words) - 17:41, 2 April 2024
  • The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern...
    66 KB (8,241 words) - 14:04, 14 February 2024
  • The Mountaintop (category Poor People's Campaign)
    Conference produced the idea of the Poor People's Campaign, a campaign that demanded economic and human rights for poor Americans of diverse backgrounds...
    20 KB (2,503 words) - 12:44, 25 January 2024
  • and the Lily-white movement caused the exclusion of most blacks and many poor whites from the political system in southern states. Black voter registration...
    85 KB (9,043 words) - 00:15, 11 April 2024
  • Natalia Linos (category Living people)
    member of the COVID-19 Health Justice Advisory Committee to the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival. Natalia Linos was born in...
    10 KB (954 words) - 15:03, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ralph Abernathy
    Ralph Abernathy (category Poor People's Campaign)
    the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968; he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well as other marches and demonstrations...
    60 KB (4,838 words) - 17:25, 17 April 2024