The Struggle Persists

During the Poor Peoples Campaign, fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr, visited what was America's most povershed town, Marks, Mississippi. According to the NBC News article, "its distress is visible in the rickety houses, crumbling buildings and shuttered downtown storefronts, other pockets of poverty in the Delta and across America where jobs have vanished are being squeezed even tighter" Marks. The people and community of Marks has suffered from a lack of job expansion and economic growth. Even fifty years after King Jr visited this community to draw awareness to the poverty problem, it has yet to be demolished.

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