Thread by @RevDrBarber

On Sunday in #Selma, I spoke on behalf of Elliott Smith, the great-nephew of Amelia Boynton, to remind the nation that Selma was not a day but a declaration: Our deadline is victory! #Selma57 #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Selma was not just about voting rights either. Rev. Dr. King linked the fight for voting rights and the fight for economic justice. We can’t talk about one without talking about the other.

When 140 million Americans were either poor or one emergency away from poverty before COVID, when we have less voting rights today than in 1965, & we’ve seen nearly 1 million deaths from COVID, many needlessly, we shouldn’t need anything else to tell us we need a movement!

If we march on Bloody Sunday in Selma, but we don’t march in every street in every state across these United States, then we actually dishonor what happened 57 years ago on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. We need a moral movement.

Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls! #PoorPeoplesCampaign

RSVP online now: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18?source=…