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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Tue May 15, 2018, 06:15 PM May 2018

Good news: For 40 days in 30 US cities, King's Poor People's Campaign lives again

From the article:


Under sweltering 94-degree heat in front of the General Assembly building, a hardy group of progressive activists gathered to revive the 40-day Poor People’s Campaign, the civil disobedience movement founded 50 years ago by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.


To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2018/05/14/echoing-king-activists-revive-a-poor-peoples-campaign-for-equality-and-justice/
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Good news: For 40 days in 30 US cities, King's Poor People's Campaign lives again (Original Post) guillaumeb May 2018 OP
95-degrees in Montgomery, Alabama. Civil rights STILL matters here! yallerdawg May 2018 #1
Alabama? guillaumeb May 2018 #2
Montgomery, Alabama is... yallerdawg May 2018 #3

yallerdawg

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3. Montgomery, Alabama is...
Tue May 15, 2018, 07:32 PM
May 2018

the birthplace of civil rights!

Organized by ministers and churches, same as today (Rev. Barber et al.).

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