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In March 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Marks to get support for a Poor People’s Campaign. King envisioned a march that would begin with mule and wagon trains in Mississippi before converging on Washington, D.C. The mule train eventually [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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