BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Description of Pictures: City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
December 15, 2017 – Indefinitely
City of Hope commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s daring vision to end poverty in the United States. With newly discovered photographs and videos, the exhibition encourages visitors to explore this important chapter in U.S. history.
As the United States emerged in the 1960s as a global model of wealth and democracy, an estimated 35 million Americans lived in poverty. From the elderly and underemployed to children and persons with disabilities, poverty affected people of every race, age, and region. Although President Lyndon B. Johnson had declared a “war on poverty” in 1964, social inequalities and unequal access to opportunities left many Americans struggling.
In response, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy, organized a Poor People’s Campaign to confront poverty as a national human rights issue. As a multiethnic movement, the six-week, live-in demonstration in Washington, D.C., attracted protesters nationwide to mark a new era in American history.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Accessing as Spider: The system has identified your IP as being a spider.
IP Address: 18.221.239.148 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] SIHOPE_180117_001.JPG	[2] SIHOPE_180117_005.JPG	[3] SIHOPE_180117_012.JPG
[4] SIHOPE_180117_022.JPG	[5] SIHOPE_180117_033.JPG	[6] SIHOPE_180117_036.JPG
[7] SIHOPE_180117_044.JPG	[8] SIHOPE_180117_046.JPG	[9] SIHOPE_180117_049.JPG
[10] SIHOPE_180117_052.JPG	[11] SIHOPE_180117_056.JPG	[12] SIHOPE_180117_059.JPG
[13] SIHOPE_180117_066.JPG	[14] SIHOPE_180117_069.JPG	[15] SIHOPE_180117_071.JPG
[16] SIHOPE_180117_073.JPG	[17] SIHOPE_180117_076.JPG	[18] SIHOPE_180117_083.JPG
[19] SIHOPE_180117_092.JPG	[20] SIHOPE_180117_095.JPG	[21] SIHOPE_180117_097.JPG
[22] SIHOPE_180117_101.JPG	[23] SIHOPE_180117_103.JPG	[24] SIHOPE_180117_107.JPG
[25] SIHOPE_180117_108.JPG	[26] SIHOPE_180117_110.JPG	[27] SIHOPE_180117_112.JPG
[28] SIHOPE_180117_116.JPG	[29] SIHOPE_180117_120.JPG	[30] SIHOPE_180117_124.JPG
[31] SIHOPE_180117_128.JPG	[32] SIHOPE_180117_132.JPG	[33] SIHOPE_180117_136.JPG
[34] SIHOPE_180117_139.JPG	[35] SIHOPE_180117_141.JPG	[36] SIHOPE_180117_143.JPG
[37] SIHOPE_180117_144.JPG	[38] SIHOPE_180117_147.JPG	[39] SIHOPE_180117_149.JPG
[40] SIHOPE_180117_152.JPG	[41] SIHOPE_180117_153.JPG	[42] SIHOPE_180117_157.JPG
[43] SIHOPE_180117_160.JPG	[44] SIHOPE_180117_169.JPG	[45] SIHOPE_180117_173.JPG
[46] SIHOPE_180117_175.JPG	[47] SIHOPE_180117_178.JPG	[48] SIHOPE_180117_181.JPG
[49] SIHOPE_180117_184.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1]

") are described as follows:

SIHOPE_180117_001.JPG: City of Hope Resurrection City & the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
SIHOPE_180117_005.JPG: City of Hope Resurrection City & the 1968 Poor People's Campaign In the 1960s, as the United States emerged as a global model of wealth and democracy, an estimated 35 million Americans lived in poverty. From the elderly and underemployed to children and persons with disabilities, poverty affected people of every race, age, and region. Although President Lyndon B. Johnson had declared a "war on poverty" in 1964, social inequalities and unequal access to opportunities left many Americans struggling in a land of plenty. In response, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy, organized a Poor People's Campaign to confront poverty as a national human rights issue. As a multiethnic movement, the six-week, live-in demonstration in Washington, D.C., attracted protesters nationwide to mark a new era in American history. It was the first large-scale, nationally organized demonstration after King's death. Additionally, it was the final vision of King's life, and his most ambitious dream.
SIHOPE_180117_012.JPG: The Great Society Following World War II, the United States experienced a financial boom in which millions of Americans enjoyed the benefits of national economic growth. Jobs in government, manufacturing, and service industries transformed the nation into an affluent society that most people could not have imagined years earlier during the Great Depression. Federal programs such as the G.I. Bill helped families buy homes, start businesses, attend college, and build generational wealth in unprecedented numbers. These opportunities were not available to everyone, however. By 1968, 35 million people lived below the poverty line of $3,130 per year for a family of four, and $1,540 per year for individuals. As an emerging middle class migrated to the nation's developing suburbs, the poverty of coal mines, migrant farms, and inner cities became invisible.
SIHOPE_180117_044.JPG: As a presidential candidate in 1960, John F. Kennedy was moved by the levels of poverty he saw in states such as West Virginia. Once he was elected president, books on poverty, including Michael Harrington's The Other America, influenced Kennedy's decision to create an antipoverty agenda. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson immediately became president and he adopted Kennedy's antipoverty platform. Declaring a war on discrimination and poverty, President Johnson launched a domestic agenda known as the Great Society, which expanded federal benefits for retirees, the disabled, widows, and students through Medicare and Medicaid, employment programs, and federal support to elementary and secondary schools
SIHOPE_180117_052.JPG: Mobilizing Communities
SIHOPE_180117_095.JPG: Start of the Campaign
SIHOPE_180117_097.JPG: Ralph Abernathy and Walter E. Fauntroy (1968)
SIHOPE_180117_103.JPG: Poverty in America

SIHOPE_180117_108.JPG:

Poverty in America
1968		2016
201 million	Total Population	323 million
35 million	Number of People Living in Poverty	40.6 million
Poverty Rates (of Total Population)
15.6%	Children	18%
25%	Elderly People	9.3%
33.5%	People of Color	51.5%
10%	White People	8.8%

SIHOPE_180117_112.JPG: Model of Resurrection City
SIHOPE_180117_116.JPG: Resurrection City by the Numbers
SIHOPE_180117_128.JPG: Building a City of Hope
SIHOPE_180117_132.JPG: Eunice Kennedy Shriver with a young man building a tent, 1968
SIHOPE_180117_144.JPG: Life at Resurrection City
SIHOPE_180117_160.JPG: Pete Seeger and Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1968
SIHOPE_180117_169.JPG: Evacuating Resurrection City
SIHOPE_180117_184.JPG: OUR HOPE is that we believe in America, and we come to Washington as an affirmation of that faith. -- "A Declaration by the Poor People's Campaign for 1968 Americans"

AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].