CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/12/2018

This movement belonged to them. 'Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968'

“They came to Washington in the spring of 1968, by the thousand, young and old, black and white, traveling in busses and cars and mule trains… Almost all of them were poor. Although Martin Luther King and the Southern Leadership Conference had summoned them to the nation’s capital, this movement belonged to them. This was the Poor People’s Campaign.” - John Edwin Mason, Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968