The Society of African American Studies hosted Black Maternal Health ... The article is entitled, "SLU historian: Politicians ignore Martin Luther King’s fight for poor people, workers." St. Louis ...

King was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers upset over poor working conditions and low pay.

He sought a coalition for the Poor People’s Campaign that would ... with these rambunctious, young African-American men, who wanted to exact some vengeance for the assassination of King.

Chicago's African American activists aimed to change that ... The NWRO joined with the SCLC in 1968's Poor People's Campaign and nearly reached agreement on welfare reform with the Nixon ...

Enslaved African Americans could never forget ... In addition, slavery gave the farmers a group of people to feel superior to. They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were ...

For many people ... So, are you poor? Is asking this question a useful exercise? Here's what to know about where you fall in the American economic class system. There are a range of measures ...