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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign in 1967-68. It was a nationwide effort to persuade a reluctant Congress and White House to take comprehensive action against poverty. Fifty years later, poverty persists, but so does the determination of a new generation of activists. To learn more, TruthToTell interviews Rob Eller-Isaacs, co-pastor of Unity Unitarian Church and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Minnesota.