When Americans stop to commemorate Dr. Matin Luther King, Jr. each year, we tend to do a great disservice to the mans legacy by glossing over his final act as an anti-poverty crusader. In the weeks leading to his assassination, King had been hard at work organizing a new march on Washington known as the Poor Peoples Campaign. The goal was to erect a tent city on the National Mall that, as Mark Engler described it for The Nation in 2010, would dramatize the reality of joblessness and deprivation by bringing those excluded from the economy to the doorstep of the nations leaders. The great civil rights leader was killed before he could see the effort through. theatlantic/business/archive/2014/01/remembering-martin-luther-king-jrs-solution-to-poverty/283193/
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:00:00 +0000
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