Introduces "Mayor" of Resurrection City: The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Washington DC introduced Resurrection City manager, the Reverend Jesse Jackson of Chicago. Black leaders gathered at the plywood shelter encampment of the Poor People's Campaign. In background one of the demonstrators nails up a "City Hall" sign, May 22, 1968

Take a month after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this image shows Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy and Reverend Jesse Jackson presiding over a gathering at Resurrection City. This temporary town established in Washington, D.C. fulfilled King’s call for “a trek t...