# King’s last winter states an Economic Bill of Rights as the Poor People’s public demand Date: 1968 ## The fact In the winter of 1968 King and SCLC framed the Poor People’s Campaign as a demand for jobs, income, and housing — an Economic Bill of Rights — bringing Black, white, Latino, and Native poor as one lobby. It is one event. ## Context The polarising encampment method is a separate row. This stores the redistributive demand as an inequality path. [Martin Luther King Jr](/people/martin-luther-king-jr).’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. February–March 1968 organizing is his. The later encampment’s sanitation after 4 April is not. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row. ## Evidence and sources King Institute Poor People’s Campaign pages independently describe the economic-bill frame; presidential-library poverty files independently sit in the same winter. Official or archival record: King Institute — Poor People’s Campaign (https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign; Stanford University). ## Significance A cross-racial poor people’s jobs-and-income demand is an inequality path of high confidence on the claim, medium on enactment. A demand is not a signed statute. A cross-racial poor people’s jobs-and-income demand is an inequality path of high confidence on the claim, medium on enactment. ## What is established and what is not Established: the 1968 campaign publicly demanded jobs/income/housing. Not established: that Congress adopted the bill because he wrote it. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Martin Luther King Jr.. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes. They are not a public rating. ## People - Martin Luther King Jr.: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther-king-jr ## Drivers - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://www.lbjlibrary.org/news-and-press/civil-rights - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mlk-poor-peoples-economic-bill