Word: resurrectione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's lax grip on leadership of the Poor People's Campaign has been steadily slipping away. Last week his hold relaxed to the point of paralysis. While Resurrection City afforded Washington an unseemly display of backbiting and verbal pyromania, the protest...
Rustin's economic charter called for a million new public-service jobs for the poverty-stricken, passage of an omnibus housing bill, extension to farm workers of labor bargaining rights, more funds for welfare budgets and emergency food programs for the poor. Abernathy's fiery new demonstration director...
While Williams tried fecklessly to provoke mass arrests, bending the campaign toward civil disobedience, Resurrection City's population shrank to a minimum estimate of only 500. Violence was rising, vituperative militance was alienating liberals, who are Abernathy's only real source of mainstream support, and the pretender to...
Abernathy and his lieutenants in the S.C.L.C. were not notably successful at maintaining order down there either, and the result was a week marked by chaotic confrontations and often puerile demonstrations. One group of 150 poor people marched into the cafeteria of the Agriculture Department, piled their trays high with...
The campaign was also plagued by internal dissent. Resurrection City, heavily black, sprouted some white ghettos, including one populated by Appalachian mountain folk and another by hippies who dubbed their enclave "Diggerville" and festooned their shelters with gaily colored cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over...