Marks, Martin and the Mule Train

"A third person chronicle of Marks, Mississippi as the origin of the Mule Train component of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The book begins with the backdrop of living conditions in Marks, a small town in the Mississippi Delta mired in abject poverty ... It was this pervasive sense of hopelessness and widespread hunger that struck Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his two visits to Marks in 1966 ... Dr. Abernathy writes that Dr. King wanted the Poor People's Campaign to begin "at the end of the world," in Marks, Mississippi ... Even though Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, his inspired Mule Train left Marks on May 14, 1968. The 1,000 mile journey took a month to complete, but 28 wagons pulled by 56 mules paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue on Juneteenth (June 19) 1968 as the centerpiece of the Poor People's Campaign."--Jacket page [iii].