This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Resurrection City and the Poor People Campaign Remembered
In spring 1968 Howard University professor Kenneth Jadin helped plan Resurrection City on a National Mall site to spotlight poverty. King’s assassination followed by RFK’s left the movement with a fragile future as 3000 protesters lived in tents for six weeks near the Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.
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Kenneth Jadin
Howard University
Washington, D.C
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Resurrection City
National Mall
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Capitol
Lincoln Memorial
America
Robert F. Kennedy
Marc Steiner
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Life Magazine
Robert Houston
Houston
National Museum of
National Museum of American History
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Smithsonian
Morgan State University