The Poor People's Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.
The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination.
After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
Among those demands was a proposal for an "economic bill of rights" that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.
"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…
When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…
That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"
-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting
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Why do people call themselves "a red blooded ____"
What other colour would your blood be, green?
Blue which usually referred to aristocratic peoples.
I do not know if this relates to the old idea of people having different colored humors. The old idea that the body has 4 goops inside red, black, yellow, and brown. Or another similarly premiere idea that stuck around. It is likely where we get the phrasing for describing something underwhelming and anemic.
However bugs usually have copper in their blood instead of iron so it can be kinda clear/blue/green. So thats a fun way to interpret it. Horseshoe crabs in particular are known for having crazy looking blood which is harvested for scientific reasons in crazy looking ways
I think it also comes from royals in England having delicate, pale skin, so their veins show up as blue, leading people to think their blood was blue
I think you almost have it, but Spansh rather than English. Spanish medieval nobility would refer to themselves as having blue blood because of their visible veins, which was an indirect reference both to not working outside but also to their visigothic origin rather than being moorish or sephardic
However my source on this is an academic talking on a podcast so I might be wrong as hell.
I forgot about that one
Probably not.
The four humors were blood (red), yellow bile (Yellow. Really more of a green-ish than a pure yellow, but sure), black bile (Black. Also black bile isn't real. It's supposed to be the dark liquid from the spleen, and that's blood), and phlegm (White/translucent/colorless. Phlegm refers to anything without a clear color).
Blue isn't associated with a humor to my knowledge.
Spock: Yes. It is.