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MLK's vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty

  • Written by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. displays the poster to be used during his Poor People's Campaign in 1968.AP Photo/Horace Cort

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase for garbage workers. These efforts by King were part of a broader and more sustained initiative known as the Poor...

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