This is in loving & living memory of all who sacrificed to build the original Poor People’s Campaign (original PPC), in existence from December 4, 1967, to Summer 1969.
The organizing culminated in a six-week community called Resurrection City in Washington, DC, from Mother’s Day (May 12) to the early morning of June 24, 1968.
The original Poor People’s Embassy was an organizing center for the Campaign in New York City at West 142nd Street & Fifth Avenue. Out of here, Cornelius “Cornbread” Givens, Gilberto Gerena Valentín, Jimmy Collier, and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick among many others carried on the work to organize the original PPC.
Since the time of the courageous acts of those who were part of Committee of 100, the Caravans to Resurrection City, and the City itself, they have many stories that have yet to be told.
We re-establish the Embassy to preserve and tell these stories, free of distortion and revisionism.
Poor People’s Embassy - Embajada de la Gente Pobre 