Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the organizers of the Poor People's March on Washington have set up "an agency to process marchers' welfare checks" as they "prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor." At least they will have something to live on while they protest against the Government's lack of concern for them...
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...more symptom of this nation's rapidly spreading cancer is the addition of some 30,000 more troops to the riot-control brigades in Washington, D.C., in preparation for the Poor People's March [May 3]. It is very sad that this country's attitude, and especially the attitude of Congress, has been completely negative toward this demonstration, even before the Rev. Abernathy presents his requests. An avalanche of legislation is needed and it will only begin to right the wrongs to the poor people of this country. But my fellow Americans, following in the footsteps...
...more disorder, more violence, more bloodshed, and a general breakdown of law and order, in the Rev. Abernathy's intended collision course with the law. A confrontation can be avoided if the politicians in power allow this dema-gogue-in-the-making to carry out his massive march and then see to it that his masses are promptly marched out of the city...
...slums throughout the nation, more than 1,200 marchers of the Poor People's Campaign began the trek toward Washington. Some were weathered field hands who had never before left the cotton-blown bottoms; others were rambunctious teen-agers splitting from a desperate scene. "The cause this march represents is alarmingly real," wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson. "Before any white man passes judgment on it, he ought to understand what he is judging...