John Wiebenson, a local architect, and others build a structure to use during the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign on the Mall. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, which he envisioned as a bold call to action to pressure the government to do more to address poverty. (Andre Chung/for The Washington Post)Freelance photographer Robert Houston’s rarely seen images of the Poor People's Campaign are now on display at the Smithsonian. “That’s why people thought it was a failure.”Demonstrators march on Washington during the Poor People’s Campaign Solidarity Day on June 19, 1968. (Charles Tasnadi/AP)An aerial view of the Poor People’s Campaign on Solidarity Day.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2018 13:07 UTC