MLK and America’s Insufficient Economic Bill of Rights
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. By 1968, one has to wonder if Dr. Martin Luther King had understood why James Bevel complained, “You all turned my march into a picnic.”(1) He was, of course, referring to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Bevel, who was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and had helped initiate and organize the Jobs and Freedom March on Washington, envisioned a grassroots demonstration consisting of the working poor and oppressed, or people who had sacrificed and gone to jail for the Civil Rights Movement. Instead, the Jobs and Freedom March included mostly middle-class blacks and liberal whites dressed in Sunday…
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MLK and America’s Insufficient Economic Bill of Rights
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