Solidarity Day, Juneteenth 1968

With a shoutout to artists who supported the original Poor People’s Campaign and Resurrection City

On the Poor People’s Embassy website is a remembrance of Solidarity Day, an event at Resurrection City in West Potomac Park, National Mall at Washington, DC, on this day 55 years ago.

It remains a critical event in building awareness of Juneteenth as well as a gathering of 100,000+ people in support of the original PPC and the residents of its encampment.

Artists were a major part of this mass movement and mobilization. Listed in the piece are a number who came to the City in solidarity. The work of acknowledgement continues.

https://poorpeoplesembassy.org/2023/06/19/solidarity-day-june-19-1968/

Here is a copy of the Solidarity Day program, as digitized by the DC Public Library. Artists specifically mentioned are Mary Gurley, Mahalia Jackson , and Aretha Franklin.

https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A6707#page/3/mode/1up