Christian Leaders Plan Updated Antipoverty Campaign
March 19, 2009
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced plans for a June antipoverty effort echoing the Poor People’s Campaign that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was planning just before his death, the Associated Press reports.
The organization aims to mobilize 50,000 people in the Mississippi Delta to draw attention to living conditions that Oxfam America recently said mirror those in the world’s poorest countries. Byron Clay, the conference’s interim president, said the campaign would run from June 19 to June 21 and focus on Delta locations.
