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In 1968, Poor Americans Came to D.C. To Protest, Some By Mule
By: Walter Ray Watson | NPR
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The photographer and folklorist documented a caravan of mule-driven wagons that left Mississippi to march on Washington 50 years ago to draw attention to poverty.