Burlingame, Dwight F.Hall, Emily M.Little, MonroeKaufman-McKivigan, JohnGrim, Valerie2013-10-072013-10-072012https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3623http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/172This thesis shows that because the Poor People’s Campaign was created by and operated within the formal structure of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - a nonprofit organization - it was unable to achieve success by almost any measure. SCLC’s organizational structure made it extremely difficult to create a national campaign from the ground up, and its leadership strategy guaranteed that it would be virtually impossible to sustain that kind of national campaign.en-USSouthern Christian Leadership ConferencePoor People's CampaginMartin Luther KingKing, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968Poor People's Campaign -- ResearchSouthern Christian Leadership ConferenceUnited States -- Race relationsAfrican Americans -- Civil rights -- HistorySocial movements -- United States -- 20th centuryThesis