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Photograph of Ralph Abernathy (left) leading followers and a mule-drawn wagon during the Poor People's Campaign March in May 1968. In May 1968 he organized the Poor People's Campaign March on Washington, D.C. Hoping to bring attention to the plight of the nation's impoverished, he constructed huts in the nation's capital, precipitating a showdown with the police. Ignoring orders to remove the huts, he was jailed for nearly three weeks.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Men
  4. African Americans
  5. Baptists
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Clergy
  10. Demonstrations
  11. Men
  12. Mules
  13. Poor People's Campaign
  14. United States
  15. Wagons
  16. Washington (D.C.)

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