Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign

Learn about Dr. Martin Luther King’s efforts to address systemic poverty and economic injustice in the late 1960s with the launch of his Poor People’s Campaign and his support for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike,. in these video excerpts from Roads to Memphis | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

 
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