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Itinerary of the Poor People's Campaign from Memphis, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C., May 1 to May 12, 1968.

The campaign for economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds was conceived in 1967 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and, after a visit to Marks, Mississippi, in March 1968, King decided to start the campaign there. After his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the SCLC decided to proceed with the campaign, which ended in a weeks-long protest in Washington, D.C. that continued until police cleared the camp known as Resurrection City on June 24.

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sc.0535.001_007.004

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1968

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Poor People's Campaign.

Poor People's Campaign itinerary, 1968

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