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......The Poor Peoples Campaign was to include; southern rural and northern ghetto blacks, Appalachian whites, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans. (McKnight, 1998, p. 4) The plan, drafted mainly by King was to bring thousands of poor people to Washington and create a camp literally on the doorstep of the government, to attempt to force congressional reforms that would amount to what King envisioned as an Economic Bill of Rights. (McKnight, 1998, p. 4) This newly conceived call for social justice would include; sweeping reforms in employment, education, welfare, and housing that President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Committee of Civil Disorders urged in its 1968 high-priority report to reverse the deepening racial and economic divisions plaguing American society. (McKnight, 1998, p. 4) These divisions had been evident throughout the historical civil rights movement as the elements within society that were most likely to create further division and continue to support social inequality and disenfranchisement. In short the Poor Peoples Campaign was a demonstrative call to challenge the institutions of capitalism that favored some and fully alienated others. Though economic disenfranchisement was an essential element of the civil rights movement it was not the driving force behind it as early in

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