Video: 'Coretta Scott King Speaks! Solidarity Day at Resurrection City'

(Wednesday, June 19, 1968, scheduled for noon-4:30 p.m. EDT; during the Poor People’s Campaign, part of the Civil rights movement) — A multiracial crowd of more than 50,0000 Americans marched on Washington today to emphasize their demand for a just share of affluence and dignity for African-Americans, Spanish-speaking minorities, Native Americans and poor whites.

Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., was the keynote speaker at the Solidarity Day rally.