Start programs in Mississippi and Alabama. The USDA released surplus commodities to the nation's one-thousand poorest counties, food stamps were expanded, and some federal welfare guidelines were streamlined. Marian Wright Edelman formed a network of agency bureaucrats concerned about poverty issues. Activists in the National Welfare Rights Organization also gained important connections in the capital. Meanwhile, other marchers, especially Chicano activists, spoke of eye-opening experiences that made them more sophisticated in their thinking about poverty and their relationships with each other, when they returned West. The SCLC organized a protest caravan, driven by mule-power, to work its way down to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, in early August. Nixon continued to make rioting a campaign issue, explicitly seeking the votes of suburban whites, "the nonshouters, the nondemonstrators", by promising increased policing, crackdowns on rioters, and an end to educational integration. The Mule Train traveled on and arrived in Chicago for the turbulent Democratic Convention in Chicago, where the demonstrators got caught in the midst of violence in the streets surrounding the convention site. In 1969, a Poor People's Campaign delegation, including Abernathy, met with President Nixon and asked him to address hunger and malnutrition. During the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Abernathy and the SCLC organized "Resurrection City II" in Miami. There, they camped alongside other groups, including Students for a Democratic Society and Jerry Rubin's Yippees. In 2017, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival was launched with the goal of bringing the original work of the Poor People's Campaign forward. See also Bonus Army Coxey's Army March on Washington Movement Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Occupy D.C. COINTELPRO References Bibliography External links The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists at Penn State University Library , Weekend America: Resurrection City Image gallery from the Poor People's Campaign, made of United Automobile Workers photographers and others, Walter P. Reuther Library. March commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign Memphis Civil Rights Digital Archive "Poor People's Campaign", King Encyclopedia Class Resurrection: The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 and Resurrection City John Blake. King's final crusade: The radical push for a new America. CNN, 2008-04-01 Poor People's Campaign Ken Heinen's 1968 Poor People's Campaign Photographs Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries Photographs of Resurrection City hosted by