On 5 February 1968, the National Coordinating Committee of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago to build the coalition for the Poor People’s Campaign. NWRO were instrumental in the Mother’s Day March that commenced Resurrection City three months later.
Poor People’s Embassy/ Embajada de la Gente Pobre commemorates this building of solidarity that is necessary to this day.
Source: “History of the NWRO and NWRU. National Welfare Rights Union
Poor People’s Embassy - Embajada de la Gente Pobre 