The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Address By Senator Edward M. Kennedy to the SCLCSenator Edward M. Kennedy highlights Dr. King's efforts during the Civil Rights Movement. He also expresses concerns about poverty, unemployment, nonviolence, segregation and integrity. |
Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty Members ListThis document lists members of the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty, Commission on National Programs and Policies as of December 1965. |
Letter from A. Philip Randolph to MLK about a ContributionIn this letter A. Philip Randolph asks Dr. King for contributions needed to carry out the work of the National Advisory Committee On Farm Labor (NACFL). Randolph states, "NACFL stretches its limited funds far, but now at this critical point we must ask for your support". |
National Sharecroppers Fund Annual ReportFrank P. Graham, chairman of the National Sharecropper's Fund, mails out two separate articles from The New York Times and The New York Post that referencing the organization which supports migrant farm workers. Graham provides factual information pertaining to the proposed legislation to improve living standards for farm workers, and communicates the need for such a proposal. |
Statements on Jobs and PovertyDr. King explains the relationship between violence and the lack of employment among young people. Dr. King also speaks of the Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom and its efforts to end poverty and hunger. |