On this day in 1967

On this day in 1967

Dec. 4, 1967 Photograph of Ralph Abernathy, left, and Coretta Scott King, right inside a tent set up as part of the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. Credit: Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries Martin Luther King, Jr. announced creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Poor People’s Campaign, a movement to broadly address economic inequalities with nonviolent direct action.  “It must not be …