ralph david abernathy. sitedeclare that to be the of resurrection city, usa. --[cheering] >> we are here because there are a lot of problems that have to be taken care of in this country. we're here because little children are standing around without food to eat. we are here because most of the plaque -- black people in the states do not have adequate housing, and education. >> we are the people who have come out of great trials and tribulations. dr. martin luther king did not stop us. i'm here to tell you that nothing that the congress of the united states of america and the policeman and the national guard they can do here in washington that can stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] come to washington for our freedom. we have come to washington for just this. -- for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> it looks like a nice place. water, light and everything like that. >> i just feel sorry for the young people. the sick youngsters. i did not know much about what was going on, but i know that

ralph david abernathy. >> i declare this to be the site of resurrection city, usa. [cheering] >> we are here to do business. we are here because there are a lot of problems that have to be dealt with in this country. we're here because little children are standing around in mississippi, alabama and georgia without food to eat. we are here because most of the black people in the states do not have adequate housing, and they do not have education. that is why we are here. >> we are the people who have come out of great trials and tribulations. the death of dr. martin luther king did not stop us. i'm here to tell you that certainly, nothing that the congress of the united states of america and the policeman and the national guard are here that they can do here in washington that can stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not going to let nobody turn us around. [applause] >> we have come to washington for our freedom. we have come to washington for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> i will tell you the truth, it looks like a nice place. here, water

ralph abernathy as an effective leader of the post-king civil rights movement. while it is clear resurrection it didd not end poverty, help focus america's attention on the vast and diverse array of americans trapped by poverty. the six-we can cap mint on the national mall, it is contemporaryee the resonance of the poor people's campaign. after all, the mall has been the site of so many moments where people have demanded a changed america. african-americans used the bully pulpit of that expanse of land equality, from marian anderson in 1939 to the march on washington in 1963 to the poor people's campaign to the million-man march. it has become sacred space to ask america to change. the artifacts in this exhibition are reminders that despite the economic growth and prosperity that has shaped this nation there are still eons of americans without access to the american dream of economic opportunity -- millions of to thens without access american dream of economic opportunity. somebody demanded that america give equal opportunity to accompany the demand for equal ri

from the left, andrew young, then ralph abernathy, and on the far right bernard lee. they had taken eastern airlines flight 381 from atlanta. at the atlanta airport, there had been a bomb threat that was directed specifically at king. the passengers on the plane were evacuated, dogs brought in. turned out to be a false alarm. but the plane arrived late in memphis, over an hour late, and those were not king's only two worries on that wednesday morning. the bomb threat, as unsettling as that might have been, the delayed arrival. this was his third visit to memphis in 1968. on his first visit on march the 18th, he addressed the city's garbage workers who were then in the throes of a bitter strike. he was back ten days later to speak and to lead a march through downtown memphis. finish also in -- also in support of the garbage workers. barely had the march begun before it turned into a riot. a small number of youth had broken away from the march. they had broken windows, looted stores. the police responded with tear gas and clubs and guns. and in the aftermath, it was kin

ralph abernathy said we will go on and support for the campaign exploded. this is maybe one of those ironies, that those were critical of the campaign initially and said i will set this out i don't agree with doing, and it would not succeed changed their mind. the black panthers who called the campaign outmoded said -- one of the panthers that i interviewed told me, i will go as a tribute to dr. king. the naacpme leader of and a rival of kings for fundraising and media attention, who has said that the poor people's campaign would provoke violence and make it even harder to make any kind of progress andhe civil rights in 1967 1968 when it came to the vietnam war and issues like that, he does not support the campaign but withdraws his opposition from the campaign. there are many other nameless people, black, white, brown who want to do something and upset -- are upset by his death and a poor people's campaign is a good way to channel their energy , whether through donations or volunteer work or going to washington so you see an , explosion of support for the

ralph abernathy as an effective leader of the post king civil rights movement. while it is clear resurrection city did not end poverty, it did help focus america's attention on the vast and diverse array of americans trapped by poverty. by examining the six-week encampment on the national mall, candidly it is hard not to see the contemporary residents of the poor people's campaign. after all the mall has been the sight of so many moments where people have demanded a change in america. african-americans have used this bully pulpit of expanse of land from the lincoln memorial to the capital to demand equality from marian anderson in 1939, to the march on washington in 1963, to the poor people's campaign, to the million man march. it has become sacred space to ask america to change. the images and the artifacts within this exhibition are reminders that despite the economic growth and prosperity that has shaped this nation since 1968, there are still millions of americans without access to the american dream of economic opportunity. we hope this exhibition encourage

folk school, after the montgomery bus boycott, he is there with the folksinger, rosa parks, ralph david abernathy and charisse horton, the daughter of myles horton who ran that place, great meeting they had, the only place where blacks and whites could meet together and this came out of it, a secret photographer from georgia, so-called education commission which was there, took a picture in the john burke society, put it on billboards especially in the south, king had a communist trading school. i don't know how i got it, they found it somewhere with the same thing and it says courtesy of the john burke society. the same picture was in the memphis commercial in the 60s, no explanation and when they march from selma to montgomery they march bible board like this so the campaign of hate against king was fueled very much by this fear of so-called communism. one of the most famous baptist preachers in the world being thought of as a communist. j edgar hoover, i have read the correspondence, people writing letters, i hear king is a communist, sort of like today, i hear, you heard, who did you hear it