Poor and low-wealth people from Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi declared Monday that they are the resurrection of the Poor People’s Campaign and that they will finish the work of that movement as a united force to lift from the bottom.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival continues its march toward Washington with a rally Monday at the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where an assassin tried to silence the movement when he killed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.