Martin Luther King, Jr. in Marks, Mississippi - 1967

“Right then, King resolved that the

mule train for Washington would leave from Marks.”

Taylor Branch

Mule Train to Washington, D.C. - 1968

Mule Train to Washington, D.C. - 1968

Mule Train to Washington, D.C. - 1968

Resurrection City on the D.C. Lawn - 1968

Resurrection City Daycare

Resurrection City Residents - 1968

Resurrection City on the D.C. Lawn - 1968

Poor People’s Campaign – 1968

National Council of Churches Supporting the Poor People’s Campaign

“ There are millions of poor people in this country who have very

little, or even nothing, to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a

freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our

complacent national life. ” - Martin Luther King, Jr

Coalition of Immokalee Workers – Immokalee, Florida

Domestic Workers United

Zapatista March Chiapas, Mexico 1999

Re-igniting the Poor People’s Campaign – 2008

Poverty InitiativeUnion Theological Seminary

www.povertyinititive.orgpoverty@uts.columbia.edu

(212)280-1439