In December 1967, just months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced his Poor People’s Campaign , a radical anti-poverty crusade that aligned with the leader’s democratic socialist beliefs . King’s support of the Memphis Sanitation Strikers — the group he was supporting in Tennessee, where he was killed 50 years ago today — was part of his allegiance to the well-being of low-income people across the country.
In the recent discourse surrounding protests by members of the National Football League , pundits and politicians somehow believe that King would never disrupt traffic, block bridges, or protest the […]
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