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Can Occupy learn from the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign?

December 1, 2011 Arthur Lieber Economy, Employment, History, Poverty 2 comments

Most people know that when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was in Memphis to help striking sanitation workers.

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