In May 1868, the National Welfare Rights Organization helped launch the Poor People's Campaign with a Mother's Day march through Shaw.

ID: 4268 ~ Source: Jack Rottier photograph collection, Collection #C0003, Box 8, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights: 1713 R Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights: 1713 R Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Poverty Rights Action Center, Welfare Rights: 1713 R Street NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

“There are more poor than rich people in this country, but Congress doesn’t seem to know it. If we organize, they’ll have to listen.” (Catherine Jermany, welfare rights organizer)