MLK’s ‘Poor People’s Campaign’ revived in North Carolina

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Wednesday, 21/03/2018

Two weeks ago marked the 53rd anniversary of a watershed moment in the civil rights movement — the Selma to Montgomery marches, where civil rights leaders including current Georgia Congressman John Lewis were badly beaten by Alabama State Troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. 

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