In May 1868, the National Welfare Rights Organization helped launch the Poor People's Campaign with a Mother's Day march through Shaw.

ID: 4268 ~ Source: Jack Rottier photograph collection, Collection #C0003, Box 8, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights

In May 1868, the National Welfare Rights Organization helped launch the Poor People's Campaign with a Mother's Day march through Shaw.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights

Poverty/Rights Action Center (P/RAC) opened its offices at 1713 R Street in April 1966 as an organizing base for grassroots activists across the country—mostly poor, Black women determined to ensure that they had a voice in President Lyndon B.…