And I tell you I saw hundreds of Black boys and Black girls walking the streets with no shoes to wear,' King said at the National Cathedral in Washington. 'I was in Marks, Mississippi, the other day, which is in Quitman County, the poorest county in the United States. On March 31, 1968, in what would be his final Sunday sermon before his assassination, King described the poverty-stricken families he encountered in Marks. chose the town in 1968 as the starting point for his Poor People's Campaign, which demanded economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds. Marks appealed to Robinson due to its civil rights history. Since 2013, it has inducted more than 200 artists. Robinson founded the hall of fame in 2010. Take Five: A Jazz Sampler Songs Of The Civil Rights Movement 'My vision to build a hall of fame to honor R&B and its contributions to civil rights, America, and the entire world is something that I don't take lightly.' 'There is no other hall of fame in the world that is primarily focused and dedicated to the history of R&B music on a national scale,' LaMont Robinson, CEO of the NRBHF, said in a news release. The project is the culmination of a 50-year effort to build a hall of fame for R&B musicians such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin and B.B. Marks is the county seat of Quitman County and has a population of fewer than 2,000 people. Project planners hope to finish building the facility in the town of Marks in two or three years, Velma Wilson, director of economic tourism and development for Quitman County, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. A small town in the Mississippi Delta that has ties to the civil rights movement will soon be home to the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. 18, 2022, shows digital rendering of the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in Marks, Miss. This image provided by A2H Engineers, Architects, Planners on Aug.

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