Today in Labor History May 13, 1968: The Poor People’s Campaign raised Resurrection City, in Washington, D.C. The tent shanty town, part of the campaign to gain economic justice for poor people, existed for six weeks. The Poor People’s Campaign was originally organized by Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). However, Ralph Abernathy took over leadership after King’s assassination. It developed from the realization that civil rights gains had not improved material conditions for African Americans. However, the Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial movement that included white, Asian Hispanic and Indigenous Americans. Some of the Campaign’s leaders included Chicano leaders Corky Gonzales and Reies Tijerina. Other participants included Appalachian miners. The FBI and military intelligence spied on the camp and wiretapped the campaign. Some of the spies posed as journalists, or as black militants.

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Sitting in a mechanic shop and a young Caucasian girl drives up in a supped up Lexus. She has two Latinas, I'm assuming friends, with her. She explains she got a flat and had to put on her spare. At first I'm thinking "Good for her". Then I see her two Latina friends all dirty, black, from changing the tire.

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Our state representative got money to erect these ¿posters? along the Woodland Park walking path. They narrate the settlement of the Mexican and Mexican American population in the city, a brief and important summary.

Note: In 2026, Spanish translation errors are not it

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Today in Labor History April 26, 1966: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales started the Chicano activist group Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado. Gonzales was a poet, activist and boxer. The Crusade for Justice fought for social, political, and economic justice for Chicanos. His early activism included volunteering with the Democratic Party to register Chicano voters. However, he soon became disillusioned, concluding that Chicanos could not rely on the "gringo establishment" for education, economic stability, or social acceptance. He cofounded a new party called the Congreso de Aztlán, which had short-lived success in Texas. In 1971 he founded a private school for Chicano children, named Tlatelolco, after the square in Mexico City where the military slaughter hundreds of university students in 1968. Gonzales was also an organizer of the Poor Peoples Campaign and the March on Washington.

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