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CONKDENTIAL The following references in the file captioned "Poor People's Campaign" contain information. pertaining to thé activities of Coretta see ge onnegeton with the PPC, during the pettod April, 1968-June, 1968, in California, Georgia, and WDC. _ The PPC, sponsored by the SCLC, was planned by the late Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the SCLC, to conduct a masSive civil disobedience campaign in the Nation's Capital in the Spring of 1968, in an éffort’ to“pressure Congress into passing legislation favorable tothe Negro. Mrs. King participated in contingent marches, rallies and mass meetings in support of the PPC. she was scheduled to appear at a rally of a contingent of the PPC in Philadelphia on 5/14/68 and to participate in a SCLC sponsored Mothers Day March in WDC on 5/11/69. In connection with the second phase of the PPC in Mississippi, King was to appear at a rally in June, 1969 in Jackson. The SCLC activities of King and her association with SCLC officials were also set forth. She was against the Vietnam War and was a major speaker on 11/29/65 at a anti-Vietnam War demonstration held tin WoC. King planned to attend the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami, Fla. Information concerning the. preparation and arrangements of a book entitled "My Life With Martin King" to be written by Mrs. King, was also included. _ REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER -157-8428-700 9730 109 p. 1,2 p. 1 ep. 2,3 Pp. 2 2 ep. 9