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Also Known As Poor People’s March
Date June 19, 1968
Location United States • Washington, D.C.
Context civil disobedience • American civil rights movement

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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
Where the Greensboro sit-in happened
sit-in movement
1960 - 1961
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961 - September 1961
March on Washington
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act
1964
police in Watts, 1966
Watts Riots of 1965
August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965
Mildred and Richard Loving
Loving v. Virginia
June 12, 1967
Poor People's Campaign
Poor People’s Campaign
June 19, 1968

Key People

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American religious leader and civil-rights activist
Reies Tijerina
Reies Tijerina
American activist
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
vice president of United States
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
American civil-rights activist
Eugene J. McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy
United States senator
Ralph David Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy
American religious leader and civil-rights activist

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