Arkansas senators criticize Martin Luther King Jr.-citing group

The Arkansas Senate on Monday shot down a resolution in support of the Arkansas Poor People’s Campaign.

The resolution “recognizes and supports” the group that began organizing in 2017, reviving the 1968 campaign that Martin Luther King Jr. helped organize prior to his assassination.

However, several Republican senators questioned whether the group — which bills itself as “challenging the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality” — reflected King’s principles.

Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, who sponsored the resolution, said that history shows that the campaign follows King’s ideals.

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