The Poor People’s Campaign

20 Jan 2009

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http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2269

It’s worth remembering which Martin Luther King, Jr. we tend to remember on MLK Day:

In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: the Poor People’s Campaign. He crisscrossed the country to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor” that would descend on Washington — engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be — until Congress enacted a poor people’s bill of rights. Reader’s Digest warned of an “insurrection.”

One can see why this version of King usually goes unnoticed and/or unmentioned by most liberals. (Via The Weblog.)