“Marian Wright with Robert Kennedy.” 1967. AP Archives.
Marian Wright, Peter Edelman, and the Mule Train
In 1967, lawyer Marian Wright took Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his aide Peter Edelman on a tour of the Mississippi Delta, highlighting starvation among poor, rural Black families. Galvanized by what he saw, Kennedy demanded immediate relief for the Delta from the Secretary of Agriculture. Edelman returned to the region on a fact-finding trip, crafting a plan for the Poor People’s Campaign for protest in Washington. In 1968, thirteen mule-pulled wagons, known as the “Mule Train,” left Mississippi displaying messages reading “stop the war and feed the poor,” successfully convincing the Department of Agriculture to send emergency supplies to the region.
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The Hunger Museum
We Can Solve Hunger —
The Proof is in Our History
The Proof is in Our History
- 1.Welcome
- 2.Museum Lobby
- 3.Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe
- 4.Immigration from Europe
- 5.Immigration from Europe
- 6.Jane Addams and Hull House
- 7.The Dark Side of Nutrition Science
- 8.On the Breadline
- 9.Beginnings
- 10.How did the Food Stamp Program work?
- 11.Farm Family Portraits
- 12.An Unequal Recovery
- 13.1945-1965: WWII and the Paradoxes of the Postwar Era
- 14.Norman Rockwell, “Freedom From Want”
- 15.How did the National School Lunch Program work?
- 16.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach?
- 17.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach?
- 18.“New Frigidaire Refrigerators!” by General Motors
- 19.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Landing
- 20.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Main
- 21.Lunch Counter Student Sit-Ins (Greensboro, NC)
- 22.United Bronx Parents (Washington, DC)
- 23.Fannie Lou Hamer and Freedom Farmers (Sunflower County, MS)
- 24.Cesar Chavez’s Fast for Nonviolence (Delano, CA)
- 25.The Fish Wars (Nisqually, WA)
- 26.Fannie Lou Hamer on CBS News Series “Of Black America”
- 27.Marian Wright, Peter Edelman, and the Mule Train
- 28.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 29.Dr. Jean Mayer and the White House Conference
- 30.1975-1996: The Unmaking of the Great Society
- 31.Government Cheese
- 32.The Welfare Queen
- 33.Welfare Reform
- 34.COVID-19 – Food Distribution
- 35.One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) Signing Ceremony
- 36.“Cry with your full throat, without restraint; Raise your voice like a shofar!” – Isaiah 58:1
- 37.Wishing Tree
- 38.End tour
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger