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Meet the organizer who helped create the soundtrack for the Poor People's Campaign

By Kerry Taylor

March 9, 2018 - Jimmy Collier was an organizer-musician with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the first Poor People's Campaign. The songs he composed and recorded 50 years ago continue to inspire activists today.

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Meet the organizer who helped create the soundtrack for the Poor People's Campaign

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