August 28, 2018
Social Justice Movement Veterans Help Poor People's Campaign
Martha Waggoner and Errin Haines Whack READ TIME: 1 MIN.
From now through October, thousands of volunteers in 26 states are registering people to vote as part of the Poor People's Campaign, led by the Rev. William Barber in North Carolina.
The campaign gets its inspiration from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who announced just such a campaign in 1967, four months before he was assassinated.
Now Barber is working with those civil rights leaders who stood by King and continued his efforts to stamp out poverty and racism -- leaders like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and children's advocate Marian Wright Edelmen. Jackson says the few people at the top are benefiting from government subsidies and have more and more, while everyone else has less and less.