Anyone remember Resurrection City and the Poor People's Campaign?

[mmonk]

Refresher:

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The SCLC and other leaders decided to continue the campaign in King’s honor. A month later on May 12, 1968, demonstrators began a two-week protest in Washington, D.C.. The same month thousands of poor people of all races set up a shantytown known as “Resurrection City.” The city was closed down in mid-June and the economic bill of rights was never passed.


Undeterred, the SCLC organized a protest caravan, driven by mule-power, to work its way down to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida in early August. Later that month, the Poor People's Campaign was in town for the turbulent Democratic Convention in Chicago, where the demonstrators got caught in the midst of the extreme violence in the streets surrounding the convention site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign

What will historians write about this time?

[tblue]

1. I remember the Poor People's Campaign

at least historically. I was little back then. Good question you posed. I think OWS will have a profound effect on our system of gov't. It will take years of some level of protest, but the change is coming.

[mmonk]

2. Will it crash and burn into chaos like the '68 convention before change begins

at the conventions upcoming?