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"Marks, Martin and the Mule Train"
Kensington Welfare Rights Union Director Cheri Honkala traveled to Marks last week, meeting with a few local people who are fighting to keep the memory of King's march alive. She brought back these photos. [click to enlarge]
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Marks, Mississippi is still suffering from the same intense, multiracial, rural poverty that moved Martin Luther King to launch his Poor People's Campaign 35 years ago. |
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Cheri Honkala with Dr. Hilliard Lackey of Marks, the man who wrote the book (Marks, Martin and the Mule Train) on Dr. King's Poor People's March. |
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This quilt, seen here in the home of Betty Crawford, is the only memorial to Dr King's original Poor People's March, a campaign he could not live to see completed. It was hand-made by Ms. Crawford and is on display with other exhibits in here home. |
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Betty Crawford is one of the few people struggling to keep the mission of Dr. King's Poor People's March alive. The small museum in her home in Marks is one of the few places to learn about King's final years. |