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2018-08-08T10:41:59-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e31/20180808104611003_hd.jpgPeter Edelman, former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founding member Bernard Lafayette spoke at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Martin Luther King Jr. planned the campaign to shift the civil rights movement to economic issues, but he was assassinated before it began.
Peter Edelman, former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founding member Bernard Lafayette spoke at the… read more
Peter Edelman, former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founding member Bernard Lafayette spoke at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Martin Luther King Jr. planned the campaign to shift the civil rights movement to economic issues, but he was assassinated before it began. close
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