Word: resurrectione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C. June 30--Resurrection City is gone now. Last Monday it nearly cost Washington a riot to get rid of it, but it is gone. And West Potomac Park, rich with mud and rubble, is West Potomac Park again.
At first the idea was 'movement building.' The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy decided to keep his demands vague. He would bring his troops to Washington, camp out, moan, sing and wait. Resurrection City would be the core around which a political movement would then materialize.
Mrs. Coretta King, dressed in black in memory of her slain husband, sang Come by Here, My Lord, then launched into a 25-minute speech dwelling at length on the war in Viet Nam-"the most cruel and evil war in the history of mankind." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who...
Whatever the reason, Martin Luther King's final enterprise seems close to foundering. Resurrection City is an unhappy, unfriendly-and increasingly dangerous-collection of disparate groups of the poor. The National Capitol Parks Police estimate that 100 assaults and other violent incidents have occurred since the shacks were set...
Even where money is available, cities are finding it increasingly difficult to acquire the right land for new airports. Everyone wants a convenient field in some other part of town where the noise, fumes and potential hazards will not be personally obnoxious. In Washington, even the poverty marchers of Resurrection...