Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
Poverty is a moral outrage in our affluent society but some religious congregations have resigned themselves to tolerating it or, at best, managing it. This seminar explores how religious leaders, local congregations and poor people’s organizations can join together to expose the horrors of poverty and work together to put an end to those horrors. Special attention is given to the history of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign which was announced by Martin Luther King Jr. in December 1967. Participants examine the lessons gained from the history of this campaign and explore what this history means for building a social movement today to end poverty.
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - the Poverty Initiative's newest original publication is 
