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Podcast: Maine Things Considered
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The Revamped Poor People's Campaign Is Building Support And Coming To Maine
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:05:28
Publish Date: 2019-10-10 05:32:25
Description: In December of 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. introduced a plan to bring poor people together from across the country, for what he called a "Poor People's Campaign." The campaign would use poverty and economic injustice as organizing points to demand things like guaranteed employment and low-cost housing.
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