Updated from post in 2020: June 19, 2026 [Juneteenth] is the anniversary of the 1968 Poor People’s March on Washington, part of the Poor People’s Campaign
“………millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity….”
John R. Lewis, New York Times, July 30, 2020
Photographs from the June, 1968 March on Washington. This was the Poor Peoples’ March, organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of the Poor Peoples’ campaign. It occurred just weeks after both Dr. King and Robert Kennedy were killed – and the country was emotionally exhausted.
