Mississippi Mother with Children...Poor People's Campaign, 1968

In the spring of 1968, shortly after the assassination of the Rev.

Martin Luther King, thousand's of the nation's poor responded to the

slain civil rights leader's call to action and marched into

Washington, DC, to demand that their government do something about the

country's festering poverty. Mrs. Augusta Denison, of Marks,

Mississippi, seen here with three of her seven children, was one of

the respondents to Dr. King's call. Comments and critiques are always

welcomed. Thanks...Bill