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The Poor People's Campaign: a preliminary report on the role of William Penn House

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Report from William Penn House, a Quaker hospitality center near the U.S. Capitol Building, on the efforts of D.C. churches to provide for the needs of the activists and residents of Resurrection City for the duration of the Poor People's Campaign's lobbying on Capitol Hill and once the Resurrection City site was forcibly shut down.Original version: printed material; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Poor People's Campaign Collection
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  1. Charities
  2. Demonstrations
  3. Lobbying
  4. Poor People's Campaign
  5. Poverty
  6. Public Welfare
  7. Quakers
  8. William Penn House (Washington, D.C.)

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