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US museum launches 'Poor People's Campaign' exhibition

US museum launches 'Poor People's Campaign' exhibition

A museum in Washington has dedicated an exhibition to an iconic human rights movement sparked by Martin Luther King 50 years ago. The "Poor People's Campaign" demanded economic justice for working-class Americans. It ended in a six-week demonstration in the US capital, where thousands of protesters set up a shantytown known as "Resurrection City".

Al Jazeera spoke to the curator of the National Museum of American History, Aaron Bryant.

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