Jesse Jackson: Why I'm taking to the streets again

[NCTraveler]

A shantytown of plywood and pride, defiance and hope, Resurrection City was, 50 springtimes ago, the capital of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last crusade for peace and justice -- the Poor People's Campaign.

We were a nonviolent, multiracial army of the dispossessed from across the country who had traveled to Resurrection City, built on the National Mall in Washington to demand that our elected representatives stop the killing and waste in Vietnam and begin the healing at home. We were America's shunned, discarded and invisible, no longer willing to stay silent and unseen.

We arrived with determined spirits and heavy hearts. Just four weeks before, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, as he prepared to march with that city's striking sanitation workers before leading us to Washington for the people's war on poverty.

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On May 14, the new Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will begin 40 days of protests and demonstrations in Washington and at least 30 states, seeking, in the spirit of Martin Luther King, an end to systemic poverty, racism and war.

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