Power to the Poor

The Poor People''s Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King''s unfinished crusade became the era''s most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on th...