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 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.

The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr.

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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Word order definitely trips me up more often than I'd like, it's hard to switch between sentence structure and flow without deliberately putting the effort in.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      word order doesn't really bother me too bad ( for whatever reason the flow in spanish/portuguese are pretty intuitive to me). what gets me is just differences in prepositions bc they're usually pretty arbitrary anyway and they are often different between spanish and portuguese too so trying to remember whether its por or para or con/m or de or whatever catches me up