DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING
JUNIOR WAS NOT ONLY CIVIL
RIGHTS PIONEER BUT ALSO A
CHAMPION FOR THE POOR.
NEW EXHIBIT AT NATIONAL
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
HISTORY AND CULTURE SHOWCASES
DOCTOR KING'S MOVEMENT TO END
POVERTY IN AMERICA.
CORRESPONDENT MOA LENGHI
TAKES YOU INSIDE.
WE WILL WALK NON-VIOLENT
MEN PEACEFULLY.
REPORTER: MOST PEOPLE
REMEMBER DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER
KING AS A LEADING CIVIL RIGHTS
LEADER BUT WHAT IS OFTEN
FORGOTTEN IS HIS LEGACY OF THE
CHAMPION OF THE AMERICA'S POOR
MARTIN LUTHER KING BELIEVES
ULTIMATELY ECONOMIC, INJUSTICE
AND EQUALITY WAS JUST AS
IMPORTANT AS POLITICAL OR
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
REPORTER: CITY OF HOPE
DETAILS POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN
LAUNCHED BY DOCTOR KING IN
1968, CAMPAIGN PUT A FACE ON
POVERTY, A FACE THAT COULD
HAVE BEEN ANY COLOR, THAT
CONCERNS, SPARKED A MOVEMENT
THAT CREATED RESURRECTION CITY
DOCTOR KING ENCOURAGED
PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY TO COME TO WASHINGTON
TO TAKE PART IN CIVIL DIS
OBEDIENCE, THAT WAS
RESURRECTION CITY.
CLEARLY IT DIDN'T END POVERTY
BUT DID SHINE A SPOTLIGHT,
PROVIDING A MOMENT WHERE THE
DESPAIR OF AMERICA'S POOR
COULD BE SEEN.
I WILL GIVE MY FULL-TIME TO
THE CAMPAIGN AND MESS OF THAT
TIME WILL BE SPENT IN
WASHINGTON.
REPORTER: FOR SIX WEEKS
TENTS CITY OCCUPIED 16 ACRES
OF THE NATIONAL MALL, MARK
STEINER SPENT WEEKS LIVING IN
RESURRECTION CITY.
MONEY, DIRTY, IT WAS
INTENSE, BUT IT WAS COMRADERY,
BROTHERHOOD AND SISTER HOOD
INSIDE WAS JUST AMAZING.
REPORTER: POOR PEOPLES
CAMPAIGN GOT WHO DURING A
TUMULTUOUS YEAR IN AMERICA,
1968, DOCTOR KING AND ROBERT
KENNEDY WERE BOTH ASSASSINATED
DOCTOR KING'S DEATH SPARKED
RACE RIOTS NATIONWIDE AND IT
WAS HEIGHT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT AND MASSIVE ANTI
VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS WERE
TAKING PLACE.
THE FEAR THAT PEOPLE HAD,
FOR THE COUNTRY AND FOR EACH
OTHER AND ALL, IT WAS JUST
VERY MUCH LIKE THE FEAR THAT
PEOPLE ARE STIRRING UPRIGHT
NOW.
REPORTER: THE NATIONWIDE
MOVEMENT THAT DOCTOR KING HAD
DREAMED OF, STALLED, A CRISIS
