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Revisiting MLK's Fight Against Poverty

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Participants of the 1968 Poor People's March on Washington. (Arnold Sachs/AFP/Getty Images)

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we focus on the issue the civil rights leader championed before his death: the plight of poor people in America. Stanford Professor Clayborne Carson, editor of the King Papers and author of “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.,” joins us to speak about King’s legacy and the Poor People’s Campaign, then and now.

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Clayborne Carson, director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University; author, "Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr."

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