The Poor People’s Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.
The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King’s assassination.
After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
Among those demands was a proposal for an “economic bill of rights” that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.
"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…
When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…
That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"
-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting
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Visited my grandma today and accompanied her to a meetup for elderly people organized by the local church, because my grandma was too anxious to go by herself. Since my grandpa died 6 months ago she’s been pretty isolated so we convinced her she needed to get out and meet new people. That all went pretty well, the people were super nice, my grandma immediately started chatting with some of the other women there and she seems pretty excited to go again.
But hoo boy, those old ladies were intense about their board games. Like, they were patient with my grandma and helped her out when she didn’t know the rules, but they were so fast?? I was 50 years younger than everyone else at the table but I struggled to keep up wtf.
Old ladies do NOT fuck around with games. My first job ever involved running food orders to tables during bingo night. I basically had an impossible job of wandering around a room asking if anyone wanted to order food and also to not say a fucking word lest someone not hear a call and absolutely lay into me. As a 16 year old punk rocker who did not give any shits about this part of the job I eventually just took a silent lap around the room and anyone who flagged me down wrote their order down on my pad (of napkins) themselves. They lock in hard. However they also had to pay cash and usually got the same thing each time and brought exact change or would tell me to keep it for a tip. This fucking ruled cause I just pocketed their money and didn’t ring in the food. I knew my marks there and 3 ladies never once had their money hit the til and they got hooked the fuck up so they would absolutely never complain cause that would ruin my crimes. The rest I gave the worst service ever to so they’d constantly ask for refunds causing a lot of extra receipts to go through which disguised my crimes.