ABSTRACT
In mid-September 1967, King arranged an SCLC retreat in Warrenton, Virginia, to discuss an idea put to him by Marian Wright, an NAACP attorney working in Mississippi. Wright's suggestion was to take the crippling poverty she had witnessed in Mississippi to the seat of power in Washington DC to dramatize the plight of the black poor. Her initial suggestion was to stage a sit-in at the national headquarters of the Office of Heath, Education and Welfare.
