In the late 1960s Martin Luther King's Jr's focused moved beyond more traditional Civil Rights issues and instead focusing increasingly on the problem of poverty in America. To bring attention to the plight of America's poor of all colors King planned another march on Washington DC but this new focus and his opposition to the Vietnam war only made him more enemies.

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