Civil rights "unfinished business" : poverty, race, and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
Academic Dissertation
xv, 574 leaves
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"Under the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) between 3,000 and 5,000 African American, Mexican American, American Indian, Puerto Rican and white Appalachian poor people caravanned to Washington, D.C., and built a temporary city-- Resurrection City-- on the symbolic space of the National Mall, where they remained for over six weeks as part of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign"--Page xiii
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