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Poor People's Campaign rallies in Washington to mobilize low-income voters

A few thousand activists, advocacy groups, and religious leaders protested in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. They are calling for what they say is a Third Reconstruction.
Updated June 18, 2022 at 7:13 PM ET

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. organized low-income Americans of different backgrounds in a march on Washington known as the "Poor People's Campaign."

Over later, thousands of protesters gathered Saturday to deliver that same

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