SCLC Renews Dr. King's Poverty Campaign

by Leigh Graham · 2009-06-23 15:00:00 UTC
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Last Saturday in Jackson, Mississippi, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference renewed Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign launched 40 years ago.  Hoping for 50,000, the SCLC marched with fewer than 1,000 attendees to the state Capitol to highlight the persistent problem of poverty in the U.S.  The Campaign was launched in Jackson because MS leads the nation in poverty, according to"Interim SCLC President Rev. Byron Clay".  Clay "vowed to take the campaign to Washington and challenge Congress to help the poor."  "The campaign is needed because some people are in denial about the seriousness of poverty in America, Clay said."

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(Photo of "The Hand" sculpture in Washington, DC commissioned by SCLC's Vincent deForest for the Poor People's Campaign in 1968.  Photo by dbking)

Leigh Graham
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