The Campaigner newsletter

The Poor People’s Campaign, created in 1967 by Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and the rest of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was a political movement focused on addressing economic struggles of the American working class in housing and employment which culminated in the Poor People’s March in 1968 in Washington D.C.. The campaign focused on “[incorporating] interracial class issues and economic goals” (Britannica) and using nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.

The Philadelphia Christian Leadership Conference distributed flyers and newsletters contained in this collection to inform the local community of the Poor People's Campaign, as well as to encourage locals to become a part of protests for this movement in Washington DC. The newsletter advertised buses to protests, free child care for protesters, the names of food collection centers for people to donate to the movement, as well as asking for volunteers for the overall cause. Sourced from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Poor-Peoples-March https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/poor-peoples-campaign