The Poor People’s Campaign at 50 - The Radical Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Socialist Alternative

On December 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) announced a new campaign and mass march to shed light on the endemic poverty, inadequate housing, and structural unemployment existing in the middle of the massive postwar economic upswing after World War II. To understand the importance of this …