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Photograph of participants in the Poor People's March, Nashville, Tennessee, 1968 May 08

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A photograph of participants in the 1968 Poor People's March, Nashville, Tennessee, May 8, 1968. In March 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for the Poor People's Campaign for the purposes of organizing and uniting the poor across racial lines as well as calling national conscience to granting aid to the American poor. Demonstrators arrived in Washington, DC from nine major caravans that included modes of transportation from Greyhound buses to mule-drawn wagons. The Poor People's Campaign was one of the major priorities of Dr. King's final years and eventually was headed by Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1- 35 mm black & white photograph negative.
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Nashville Public Library

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. American
  4. Capital City
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Demonstrations
  8. History
  9. Nashville
  10. Nashville (Tenn.)
  11. Poor People's Campaign
  12. Protest Movements
  13. Race Relations
  14. Segregation
  15. Social Conditions
  16. Sources
  17. Southern States
  18. Student Protesters
  19. Tennessee
  20. Tennessee Nashville
  21. Transportation

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