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Curtis Hill, a community organizer from Lexington, Mississippi, stands with Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, also of Mississippi, inside the lawmaker’s Washington, D.C. office. Hill served as a summer 2018 intern for Thompson. Photo courtesy of Curtis Hill

Fifty years ago, a mule train left Marks, Miss., en route to Washington, D.C., starting the Poor People’s Campaign. Conceived by Dr. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference six months earlier, its aim was for the poor to confront America’s power structure and shame it into change.

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, called the president's speech "unhinged."

As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to return to Washington in September, members of the Mississippi delegation are talking about possible action on Healthcare. MPB's Ezra Wall reports.