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"WE CAN’T LOOK OUT FOR EVERYBODY"
Frustrated by the economic inequity that prevented the poor from accessing adequate health care, education, and housing, as well as the immoral complacency of the wealthy, Martin Luther King, Jr., advocated for the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968. Three-thousand people created a shantytown, dubbed Resurrection City, on the National Mall during the summer of 1968. In this drawing, Herblock contrasted the lack of funding for the Great Society poverty program with the callousness of a wealthy congressman who intended to vote for an increase in his own pension.
"We Can’t Look Out For Everybody," 1968. Published in the Washington Post, May 29, 1968. |